There is but one art, to omit.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.