There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural aptitude. A clear head, a quick imagination, and a sensitive ear, will go far towards making all rhetorical precepts needless.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

We have a priori reasons for believing that in every sentence there is some one order of words more effective than any other; and that this order is the one wh…

Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race.