How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.