The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

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.

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.