Ignorance, When It Is Voluntary, Is Criminal.

Nothing Is More Hopeless Than A Scheme Of Merriment.

Consultation And Compliance Can Conduce Little To The Perfection Of Any Literary Performance; For Whoever Is So Doubtful Of His Own Abilities As To Encourage The Remarks Of Others, Will Find Himself Every Day Embarrassed With New Difficulties, And Will Harass His Mind, In Vain, With The Hopeless Labour Of Uniting Heterogeneous Ideas, Digesting Independent Hints, And Collecting Into One Point The Several Rays Of Borrowed Light, Emitted Often With Contrary Directions.

Paradise Lost Is A Book That, Once Put Down, Is Very Hard To Pick Up Again.

What Is Said Upon A Subject Is Gathered From An Hundred People.

I Never Take A Nap After Dinner But When I Have Had A Bad Night, And Then The Nap Takes Me.