There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.
Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
At the moment I am taking a very careful look at some of the work which we have done in the past.
This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
It has been mentioned that in Trench I there is evidence of three successive stages of these defences.
But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.
I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.