Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the new generations have all to learn. There may possibly be books without a polished language, but there can be no polished language without books.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

By writing, you learn to write.

We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.