Samuel McChord Crothers — American Writer born on June 07, 1857, died on November 10, 1927

Samuel McChord Crothers was an American Unitarian minister with The First Parish in Cambridge. He was a popular essayist... (wikipedia)

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.