Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.
I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
A great book should leave you with many experiences.
Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.
Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non-compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.
There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the earlier telling of God-made harmonies coming up from the deep past, and rising to their height when man appeared, the later teaching man's relations to his Maker, and speaking of loftier harmonies in the eternal future.
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.
Learn to love humility, for it will cover all your sins. All sins are repulsive before God, but the most repulsive of all is pride of the heart. Do not consider yourself learned and wise; otherwise, all your efforts will be destroyed, and your boat will reach the harbor empty. If you have great authority, do not threaten anyone with death. Know that, according to nature, you too are susceptible to death, and that every soul sheds its body as its final garment.
You can always speak with great authority on how well you played today, but never on how you'll play tomorrow.
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
No Man has a more perfect reliance on the all-wise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks his aid more necessary...The man must be bad indeed who can look upon the events of the American Revolution without feeling the warmest gratitude towards the great Author of the Universe whose divine interposition was so frequently manifested in our behalf....In war He directed the sword, and in peace, He has ruled in our councils.
The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.
There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say.
The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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