It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.

This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques-especially to mosques.

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.