The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to it. Dull subjects are those we have failed.

Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books.

Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.

The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.

The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose.