All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.

Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.

Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.