Chess Is One Long Regret.

The Classical Scholars Have Kept Alive The Tradition Of The Superiority Of The Ancient Languages -- A Kaleidoscopic Mass Of Suffixes And Prefixes, Supposed To Represent An Infinite Shading Of Meaning. It Is A Character They Share With The Ojibway And The Zulu.

The Sorrows And Disasters Of Europe Always Brought Fortune To America.

The Victorians Needed Parody. Without It Their Literature Would Have Been A Rank And Weedy Growth, Over-watered With Tears.

Charles Dickens' Creation Of Mr. Pickwick Did More For The Elevation Of The Human Race - I Say It In All Seriousness - Than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid The Encircling Gloom. Newman Only Cried Out For Light In The Gloom Of A Sad World. Dickens Gave It.

Writing Is Not Hard. Just Get Paper And Pencil, Sit Down, And Write As It Occurs To You. The Writing Is Easy-it's The Occurring That's Hard.