The Gift, To Be True, Must Be

Why Need I Volumes, If One Word Suffice?

The Difference Between Talent And Genius Is In The Direction Of The Current: In Genius, It Is From Within Outward; In Talent From Without Inward.

I Cannot Forgive A Scholar His Homeless Despondency.

I Learn Immediately From Any Speaker How Much He Has Already Lived, Through The Poverty Or The Splendor Of His Speech. Life Lies Behind Us As The Quarry From Whence We Get Tiles And Copestones For The Masonry Of Today. This Is The Way To Learn Grammar. Colleges And Books Only Copy The Language Which The Field And The Work-yard Made.

An Artist Spends Himself Like The Crayon In His Hand, Till He Is All Gone.