Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.
I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.
The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.
Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.
In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.