Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

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

It is not difficult to conceive, however, that for many reasons a man writes much better than he lives. For without entering into refined speculations, it may be shown much easier to design than to perform. A man proposes his schemes of life in a state of abstraction and disengagement, exempt from the enticements of hope, the solicitations of affection, the importunities of appetite, or the depressions of fear.

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.