Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.