Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.