My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects. The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries in hi… - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We pass for what we are.

Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life".

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs