The more you do, the more you can do.
The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.
Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.