Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.

Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing

The mere knowledge of a fact is pale; but when you come to realize your fact, it takes on color. It is all the difference between hearing of a man being stabbed to the heart, and seeing it done.

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.