It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.

The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.

Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.

The middle years of life come on like thunder.

I saw what could be done with words, for I had a vision of a new world as I talked.

Every season of life has its compensations.

Disturbers are never popular - nobody ever really loved an alarm clock in action, no matter how grateful he may have been afterwards for its kind services!