I Do Not Envy A Clergyman's Life

Extended Empires Are Like Expanded Gold, Exchanging Solid Strength For Feeble Splendor.

All Severity That Does Not Tend To Increase Good, Or Prevent Evil, Is Idle.

The Worst Evils Are Those That Never Arrive.

Read Over Your Compositions And Whenever You Meet With A Passage Which You Think Is Particularly Fine, Strike It Out.

Nothing Can Be Truly Great Which Is Not Right.