"Graft good Fruit all, or graft not..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.”

“Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.”

“Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.”

“One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.”

“A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.”

“Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.”

“The smell rewards the care.”

“The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.”

“He who struggles is better than he who never attempts”