When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

Well done is better than well said.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

A man can preach no better than he prays.

One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.