Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?

Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression