Quotes About Author

Remember, the goal is to take emotion out of investing because emotion is what so often destroys investing success, whether it's greed or fear.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. —LAO-TZU

like you, I am busy making a living and taking care of my family. I didn't have the time to sit down and read 50 pages of disclosures.

LESSER OF TWO EVILS When I sat down to interview many of the top academic minds in the field of retirement research, I was surprised to learn that they were all in favor of target-date funds.

The persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so dearly love in your life, because they are so good.

Babbling may be a weakness, but to my thinking mystery is a vice.

There is the review intended to sell a book, — which comes out immediately after the appearance of the book, or sometimes before it; the review which gives reputation, but does not affect the sale, and which comes a little later; the review which snuffs a book out quietly; the review which is to raise or lower the author a single peg, or two pegs, as the case may be; the review which is suddenly to make an author, and the review which is to crush him.

There is an aptness, a propriety, a fitness in these things which one can understand perhaps better than explain.

Who is there that abstains from reading that which is printed in abuse of himself?

There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty.

He, as he told his tale, did not look her in the face, but sat with his eyes fixed upon her muff.

Everything about her room betokened wealth; but she had put away the French novels, and had placed a Bible on a little table, not quite hidden, behind her own seat.

Dr. Tempest was well known among his parishioners to be hard and unsympathetic, some said unfeeling also, and cruel; but it was admitted by those who disliked him the most that he was both practical and just, and that he cared for the welfare of many, though he was rarely touched by the misery of one.

The writer of stories must please, or he will be nothing. And he must teach whether he wish to teach or no. How

A low voice is an excellent thing in woman.

As regarded himself, he was still in love, — hopelessly in love, with Lady Laura Kennedy!

But the writing was clever. The facts, if not true, were well invented; the arguments, if not logical, were seductive. The

I ain't thinking of her marrying. I don't want her to marry; — not this man at least. And I fancy the Duchess of Omnium is just as likely to have scamps in her drawing-room as any other lady in London.

A low voice is an excellent thing in woman.

The eastern moiety of the county is more purely Conservative than the western; there is, or was, a taint of Peelism in the latter;

I quite feel that an apology is due for beginning a novel with two long dull chapters full of description.

But, like some other undiplomatic ambassadors, in her desire to be civil, she ran at once to the extremity of the permitted concessions.

In poetry, she was familiar with names as late as Dryden, and had once been seduced into reading "The Rape of the Lock;

CHAPTER XLVIII THE DINNER AT THE BUSH