Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
Themes
Writing
Books, speech, and the discipline of words.
We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
If I were a father and had a daughter who became a prostitute, I should not despair over her; I would continue to hope for her salvation. But if I had a son who became a journalist and continued to be one for five years, I would give him up.
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.