No One Writes Anything Worth Writing, Unless

Obstinacy Is The Result Of The Will Forcing Itself Into The Place Of The Intellect.

Pride Is Generally Censured And Decried, But Mainly By Those Who Have Nothing To Be Proud Of.

There Are, First Of All, Two Kinds Of Authors: Those Who Write For The Subject's Sake, And Those Who Write For Writing's Sake. ... The Truth Is That When An Author Begins To Write For The Sake Of Covering Paper, He Is Cheating The Reader; Because He Writes Under The Pretext That He Has Something To Say.

A Great Affliction Of All Philistines Is That Idealities Afford Them No Entertainment, But To Escape From Boredom They Are Always In Need Of Realities.

Dissimulation Is Innate In Woman, And Almost As Much A Quality Of The Stupid As Of The Clever.