"I could hear the mild voice of my Companion pointing the moral of my vision, and stimulating me to aspire, and to tea…"

"Follow your dreams, not your boyfriends."

"There is not a heart but has its moments of longing,— yearning for something better, nobler, holier than it knows now."

"His early dreams of good outstripp'd the truth, And troubled manhood follow'd baffled youth."

"Trapped dreams must die."

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to."

"The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society."

"Aspiration, worthy ambition, desires for higher good for good ends — all these indicate a soul that recognizes the be…"

"In truth, there is no religion, no worship in our prosperity and ease. So far as we are happy, we are in a state of s…"

"Father! forgive the heart that clings Thus trembling to the things of time, And bid my soul, on angel's wings Ascend …"