Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.

Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.

The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.

There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.