The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.