By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

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

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.