So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.

"If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already." Actual Twents: "At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene." Meaning: Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.