“You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?”
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
