You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
Source: In Poor Man's College Quotations Collection, ed. Sidney Madwed, AAPEX software, 1994.
-- James A Froude, (Apr 23 1818-1894), English historian; He wrote The History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1856-70.