Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.

August 9, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
"Not failure,but low aim, is a crime.
James Russell Lowell
1819-1891
US poet and author
失敗することではなく、低い目標を持つことが罪なのだ。

What! gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do: it cannot speak;
For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.
Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Venice, Act 2, Sc.2.