“If you should put a knife into a French girl's learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee.” IfsShouldGirlLearningBlowKnives Author:M. E. W. Sherwood
“I should say tact was worth much more than wealth as a road to leadership.... I mean that subtle apprehension which teaches a person how to do and say the right thing at the right time. It coexists with very ordinary qualities, and yet many great geniuses are without it. Of all human qualities I consider it the most convenient--not always the highest; yet I would rather have it than many more shining qualities.” ShouldHumansMeanPersonsLeadershipWealthQualityTeachGeniusHighestOrdinaryShiningRight ThingSubtleRight TimeConvenientApprehensionCoexistTactHuman Qualities Author:M. E. W. Sherwood
“... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters of the day work for the education of the crowd?” ShouldArtYoungEducationCrowdsPainter Author:M. E. W. Sherwood
“How often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House.” MenShouldHouseLeftWhiteOfficeWhite HousePresidencyOblivionFillingGreat Office Author:M. E. W. Sherwood