Do not borrow the productions of other men's brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but make the most of the talents, the brain power, that God has given you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
Use the noble gifts which God has given you!
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.
Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.