Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.

Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing - A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of your rowing - Whose echoes live in memory yet, Though envious years would say 'forget.

The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.

If you don't know where you're going any road will do