See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.