Writing is an act of empathy, a way of stepping into the shoes of others and seeing the world from their perspective

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

A kind Providence furnishes the limpest personality with a little gum or starch in the form of tradition.