I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.

Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

Faith is believing things you know aint true