How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Quotations
Henry David Thoreau
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
