89 Quotes About English-writer

Then by good luck W. B. Yeats, liking my first book of verse, asked me to come and see him. I owe more to him than to any man living, and my intense admiration for his work was reinforced by my intense admiration for himself.

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

In so doing, use him as though you loved him.

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.

For all men would be cowards if they durst.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.