From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

Lately we have had many losses.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.