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The first is a somewhat rare bit of Kipling-ania I found - it deals with a lecture tour of his in the U.S. and is called American Notes. This wonderful work of literature is part of that invaluable treasury compiled for Project Gutenberg. I am not sure where one can find the main corpus of Project Gutenberg as of now, but look around....

The second is a set of some interesting quotes I have compiled from diverse sources. They do not reflect my tastes entirely - I hope to reveal them soon. I will soon be adding a mammoth Tolkien reference here. Meanwhile, try out this wonderful MUSH called Elendor.

Quotes

1

Winston Churchill

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put

2

Edward Lear

'But the longer I live on this Crumpetty Tree The plainer than ever it seems to me That very few people come this way

3

Kahlil Gibran

We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words

4

Linnaeus

If a tree dies, plant another in its place

5

Alexander Pope

To err is human, to forgive, divine

6

Robert Frost

To err is human, not to, animal

7

Samuel Goldwyn

In two words: im-possible

8

Samuel Goldwyn

I read part of it all the way through

9

William Shakespeare

Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words Since I first called my brother's father dad

10

Homer

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep

11

Jonathan Swift

Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style

12

Goethe

Man errs as long as he strives

13

Matthew Arnold

The translation of Homer should above all be penetrated by a sense of four qualities of his author - that he is eminently rapid; that he is eminently plain and direct... and finally that he is eminently noble

14

Montaigne

Seeing is one thing, and doing is another

15

William Shakespeare

By indirections find directions out

16

Count Anthony Hamilton

If you would have the kindness to begin at the beginning, I should be vastly obliged, all these stories that begin in the middle simply fog my wit

17

Aldous Huxley

There is no virtue in not knowing what can be known

18

Will Durant

Education is a progressive discovery of our own innocence

19

Evelyn Waugh

Logic is simply the architecture of human reason

20

David Everett

Tall oaks from little acorns grow.

21

Mao Zedong

The longest journey begins with a single step

22

e.e.cummings

Progress is a comfortable disease

23

Ogden Nash

Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed He watched the ads And not the road.

24

Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgement.

25

William Shakespeare

Is is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance ? (Henry IV)

26

Lord Tennyson

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

27

Albert Camus

Style, like sheer silk, too often hides eczema

28

Arnold Glasgow

Efficiency is intelligent laziness

29

Albert Camus

You cannot create experience, you must undergo it.

30

Emerson

The reward of a thing done well is to have done it

31

Franklin Roosevelt