Truth is often terribly thin, don't you think?
The worst of pushing horrible things down into one's subconscious is that when they pop up again they are as fresh as if they had been in a refrigerator. You haven't allowed time to get at them to-to mould them over a little.
Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.
A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.
Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain.
Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.