Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
