Many can argue - not many converse.

Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

Labor humanizes, exalts.

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.

The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials by persons whose names thereafter became illustrious. The thumbed volumes, now so precious to thousands, were compiled from personal experiences and owe their interest to touches of inspiration of which the writer was less author than amanuensis, himself the voiced word of life for all times.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.