The Bad Poet Is A Toady Mimicking

It Is Hideous And Coarse To Assume That We Can Do Something For Others-and It Is Vile Not To Endeavor To Do It.

What Has A Writer To Be Bombastic About? Whatever Good A Man May Write Is The Consequence Of Accident, Luck, Or Surprise, And Nobody Is More Surprised Than An Honest Writer When He Makes A Good Phrase Or Says Something Truthful.

A Painter Can Hang His Pictures, But A Writer Can Only Hang Himself.

Writing Is Conscience, Scruple, And The Farming Of Our Ancestors.

I Have No Confidence In A Man Whose Faults You Cannot See.