Talk Ought Always To Run

Talk Ought Always To Run Obliquely, Not Nose To Nose With No Chance Of Mental Escape.

As Wounded Men May Limp Through Life, So Our War Minds May Not Regain The Balance Of Their Thoughts For Decades.

Literary People Are Forever Judging The Quality Of The Mind By The Turn Of Expression.

As Crowds Increase We Build Our Forts Of Inattention, And The More We Talk The Easier It Is To Mean Little And Listen Not At All.

There Ought To Be Some Sign In A Book About Man, That The Writer Knows Thoroughly One Man At Least.