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“The tepee is much better to live in; always clean, warm in winter, cool in summer; easy to move … Indians and animals know better how to live than white man; nobody can be in good health if he does not have all the time fresh air, sunshine, and good water.”

Flying Hawk, Oglala Sioux Chief (1852-1931)

“But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.”

Sir Francis Darwin (1848-1925)

“The primary office of a newspaper is the gathering of news … comment is free, but facts are sacred.”

Charles Prestwich Scott (1846-1912)

“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone but principally by catchwords.”

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

“A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.”

Bert Leston Taylor (1866-1921)

“The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.”

Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)

“. . . whether we are describing a king, an assasin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stall-holder in the market, it is always ourselves that we are describing, for we are obliged to ask ourselves the following question: ‘If I was a king, an assassin, a thief, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, a stall-holder, what would I do, what would I think, how would I behave.’”

Guy de Maupassant

“Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

William Faulkner

“A principal rule for writers, and especially those who want to describe their own sensations, is not to believe that their doing so indicates they possess a special disposition of nature in this respect. Others can perhaps do it just as well as you can. Only they do not make a business of it, because it seems to them silly to publicize such things.”

George Christoph Lichtenberg

“Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.”

Lord Acton