However mean your life is, meet it and live it.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
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.
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.