Better to be pruned to grow than cut up to burn.
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?
Little girl's definition of conscience: ''Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does. ''You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
