Able Quote by Yoshida Kenko

There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's character and…

— John Herschel

Every man should be master of anything he does and should do it in a masterly manner, with love, no matter what it is,…

— Walter Russell

A man should be what he can do.

— Montgomery Clift

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when…

— Samuel Johnson

A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste…

— Bill Vaughan

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.

— J. Norman Collie

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

— Ernest Hemingway

Don't underestimate kindess, gentleness and patience in a man.

— Sumiko Tan

Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

— Michel de Montaigne

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

— Samuel Johnson

A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon,…

— Walt Whitman