Chance Generally Favors The Prudent.

Living Requires But Little Life; Doing Requires Much.

Young Authors Give Their Brains Much Exercise And Little Food.

Xenophon Wrote With A Swan's Quill, Plato With A Pen Of Gold, And Thucydides With A Brazen Stylus.

The Ordinary True, Or Purely Real, Cannot Be The Object Of The Arts. Illusion On A Ground Of Truth,--that Is The Secret Of The Fine Arts.

The Idea Of The Nest In The Bird's Mind, Where Does It Come From?