As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.
The secret of making progress is to get started.
It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and Iām not feeling so well myself.
The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.
A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.