What does this quote mean?

“The more you draw, the better. Draw everything you can.”

Repeated drawing is treated as the route to improvement, making practice and quantity of attempts part of developing a useful skill.

Source note: The Lost Prince; Project Gutenberg #384. Loristan encourages Marco to strengthen a sketching ability useful to the story’s secret mission.

“To make each one many times was the best way to imbed it in his memory.”

The narration connects repeated practice with stronger recall, showing Marco deliberately using repetition to make a learned association more durable.

Source note: The Lost Prince; Project Gutenberg #384. The exercise involves repeatedly sketching faces connected with places for the novel’s secret mission.

“Little strokes fell great oaks.”

Small repeated efforts can accomplish work that seems too large for a single burst of effort, making consistency itself a practical form of strength.

Source note: Poor Richard’s Almanack; a compact maxim about cumulative effort.

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

Persistent effort improves the odds of useful results because steady work creates more opportunities for progress than waiting for favorable circumstances.

Source note: Poor Richard’s Almanack; the maxim appears in Franklin’s collected Poor Richard material.

“If you would be a good reader, read; if a writer, write.”

Skill grows through repeated practice rather than through wanting the identity without doing the activity.

Source note: Discourses, in George Long’s translation; the line uses reading and writing as examples of habits built through practice.

“Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labour and to wait.”

Progress is pictured as a combination of effort and patience rather than nonstop urgency.

Source note: A Psalm of Life, final line.