Lives of Girls Who Became Famous

Excerpt

All of us have aspirations. We build air-castles, and are probably the happier for the building. However, the sooner we learn that life is not a play-day, but a thing of earnest activity, the better for us and for those associated with us. Energy, says Goethe, will do anything that can be done in this world; and Jean Ingelow truly says, that Work is heaven's hest.