“It is not the hand but the understanding of a man that may be said to write.”

“[ Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned. ]”

“Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.”

“Now I understand,” said the last man.”

“You cannot write if you do not read,” the blind man said. “You cannot eat if you do not chew. And you cannot play if you do not”—he grabbed for the boy’s hand—“listen.”

“Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.”

“A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly.”

“The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.”
(Analects 4.16)”

“With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.”

“Every man has a vision,’ Nur Hussain said. ‘Whether he understands it or not.”