Cowardice, which spoils the honest man, often ameliorates the knave.
"Pelham, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton Last Updated: March 16, 2009
We admire the man who overcomes: the sailor or navigator in hostile and unknown seas; the engineer who projects himself hard against the obstacles; the miner and the explorer; the builder; the farmer who ameliorates the earth to man's use.
"The Holy Earth"
L. H. Bailey
The mind is nourished at a cheap rate; neither cold nor heat, nor age itself, can interrupt this exercise; give therefore all your cares to a possession which ameliorates even in its old age!"
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)"
Isaac D'Israeli