Apology - a desperate habit and one that is rarely cured.
Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop.
The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.
Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars nor its great scholars great men.
The reward of the general is not a bigger tent but command.
Talking is like playing on the harp there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.
When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back.
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Take your needle my child and work at your pattern it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like embroide...
Don't be consistent but be simply true.
Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth.
Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman.
Man has his will - but woman has her way.
When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences.
When the style is fully formed if it has a sweet undersong we call it beautiful and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.
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