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Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before read more
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he read more
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
