There is then creative reading as well as creative writing |
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. |
There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it. |
There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world. |
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. |
There was never a poet who had not the heart in the right place |
These days come and go, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.“ |
These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike |
They (the days) come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away |
They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear. |
They have in themselves what they value in their horse, mettle and bottom |
Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind |
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful |
Things have their laws as well as men; things refuse to be trifled with. |
Things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. |