His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Time is the least thing we have of.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.