Who said “We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their…”?

“Our ideals are our better selves.”

“I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”

“If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.”

“When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.”

“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more nourishing.”

“Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.”

“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”

“That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.”

“The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.”

“Here dead we lie because we did not choose To live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; But young men think it is, and we were young.”

“In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.”