A Man Who Has Nothing To Do

Walter Scott Has No Business To Write Novels, Especially Good Ones. He Has Fame And Profit Enough As A Poet, And Should Not Be Taking The Bread Out Of Other People's Mouths.

There Is Nothing Like Staying At Home For Real Comfort.

But Shakespeare One Gets Acquainted With Without Knowing How. It Is A Part Of An Englishman's Constitution. His Thoughts And Beauties Are So Spread Abroad That One Touches Them Everywhere; One Is Intimate With Him By Instinct. No Man Of Any Brain Can Open At A Good Part Of One Of His Plays Without Falling Into The Flow Of His Meaning Immediately.

If Adventures Will Not Befall A Young Lady In Her Own Village, She Must Seek Them Abroad.

I Am Not At All In A Humour For Writing; I Must Write On Till I Am.