Literary Success Of Any Enduring Kind Is

Any Idealism Is A Proper Subject For Art.

But Every Great Scripture, Whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, Or Chinese, Apart From Its Religious Value Will Be Found To Have Some Rare And Special Beauty Of Its Own; And In This Respect The Original Bible Stands Very High As A Monument Of Sublime Poetry And Of Artistic Prose.

Literary Success Of Any Enduring Kind Is Made By Refusing To Do What Publishers Want, By Refusing To Write What The Public Wants, By Refusing To Accept Any Popular Standard, By Refusing To Write Anything To Order.

It Has Been Wisely Observed By The Greatest Of Modern Thinkers That Mankind Has Progressed More Rapidly In Every Other Respect Than In Morality.

My Friends Are Much More Dangerous Than My Enemies. These Latter - With Infinite Subtlety - Spin Webs To Keep Me Out Of Places Where I Hate To Go, - And Tell Stories Of Me To People Whom It Would Be Vanity And Vexation To Meet; - And They Help Me So Much By Their Unconscious Aid That I Almost Love Them.