Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

Never mistake motion for progress.

...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

The ancients stole all our ideas from us.

great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because the opportunity to make promising efforts in that direction has offered itself to us with a frequency out of all proportion to the European experience.