The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today

The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.

All industry must be excited by hope.

When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.

I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain.