Concentrate on doing what you do best, and let others do the rest.
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
You can't win. Logic has no power over her when her territory has been invaded by heathens.
We are not saved by nations or by churches or by families, but as individuals, through a personal interest in a personal Saviour.
Your ability to communicate to your young people will determine your success.