“Surely a pen is like a blade; if it is not used then it becomes dull.”
“Anger dulls the blade.”
“It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.”
“Edward was at the stage of drunkenness in which the ego glows like a coal, and brilliant people become more inspired, but in which dull people, fired by the same inspiration, become only more dull.”
“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
“A mind is only as sharp as the knife, that strives to cut through thoughtstoo tough for the blade, before it breaks or goes dull.”