Improve/improved

Famous quotes containing the words improve and/or improved:

“How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

“Now I thought I would observe how he spent his Sunday. While I and my companion were looking about at the trees and river, he went to sleep. Indeed, he improved every opportunity to get a nap, whatever the day.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)