Precipitation spoils everything; consideration improves everything. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Travel improves superior wine and spoils the poor; it is the same with the brain.

He is a good time-server that improves the present for God's glory and his own salvation. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy, and the dividing of our grief. [ Cicero ]

Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtues and corrects all the vices. [ Clarendon ]

What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller? [ Landor ]

We should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower; she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it; and those sweets she herself improves and concocts into honey. [ C. C. Cotton ]

Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail. It is even heightened by sufferings. [ William Ellery Channing ]

The culture of flowers is one of the few pleasures that improves alike the mind and the heart, and makes every true lover of those beautiful creations of Infinite Love, wiser, purer, and nobler. [ J. Vick ]