Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.
Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.
The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.
Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.
Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.
The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.
Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.