Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Henry David ThoreauWater is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.
Henry David ThoreauWe have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.
Henry David ThoreauWhy should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and panther, and some even of the hunter race, may still exist, and not be "civilized off the face of the earth," - our forests, not to hold the king's game merely, but to hold and preserve the king himself also, the lord of creation, - not for idle sport or food, but for inspiration and our own true re-creation?
Henry David Thoreau