“ Dreaming men are haunted men. ”
Remember that when you say ‘I will have none of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange,’ you have denied America with that word.
~ Stephen Vincent Benét
There is a wilderness we walk aloneHowever well-companioned
As for what you're calling hard luck - well we made New England out of it. That and codfish.
(Abraham Lincoln's) weathered face was homely as a plowed field.