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— Charles Caleb Colton"Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them."
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Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.
— John Dryden
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Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground?
— William Wordsworth
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