If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
Thomas CarlyleNarrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Thomas CarlyleLearn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.
Thomas Carlyle