Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.
Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.
I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.
A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.