Murder, Like Talent, Seems Occasionally To Run

Speak For Yourself And From Yourself, Or Be Silent.

All Bad Literature Rests Upon Imperfect Insight, Or Upon Imitation, Which May Be Defined As Seeing At Second-hand.

He Who Is Ignorant Of Motion, Says Aristotle , Is Necessarily Ignorant Of All Natural Things. ...not Only Was He Entirely In The Dark Respecting The Laws, He Was Completely Wrong In His Conception Of The Nature Of Motion. ...he Thought That Every Body In Motion Naturally Tends To Rest.

It Is Not Enough That A Man Has Clearness Of Vision, And Reliance On Sincerity, He Must Also Have The Art Of Expression, Or He Will Remain Obscure.

It Is Unhappily True That Much Insincere Literature And Art, Executed Solely With A View To Effect, Does Succeed By Deceiving The Public.