[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
Hell is paved with good intentions.
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
