Ocupation: Essayist
Life: September 10, 1834 - January 13, 1895
Birthday: September 10
Death: January 13
A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle of rhetoric not put down in the books-to understand what you are talking about.
topic: Real, Book, Knowledge, Real Knowledge