Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.Aristotle
“All our talents increase in the using, and the every faculty, both good and bad, strengthen by exercise.”
“All our talents increase in the using, and the every faculty, both good and bad, strengthen by exercise.”
— ANNE BRONTE
Novelist & Poet · 1820 – 1849
Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet, the youngest of the Brontë sisters. Writing as Acton Bell, she published Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, a landmark of early feminist fiction.
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