... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.

When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.

Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues!

Fighting should be left to dogs and cats and chickens, who can't reason.

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.

You can't have genius without patience.