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“On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.”
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“[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living, but his work will never be anymore essentially clear and deep and honest than he himself is, and he will be judged finally not for how many copies his books have sold, but for what they have done to enrich the lives of their readers, now and in time to come.”
Source : Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr
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“Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.”
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“The accursed hunger for gold.”
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“Nothing can make me feel better now, except cocaine.”
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“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.”
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“He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin”
Source : Charles Hodge (1872). “Systematic Theology”, p.181
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“The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell.”
