To Write Is A Humiliation.

I Know Sage, Wormwood, And Hyssop, But I Can't Smell Character Unless It Stinks.

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

Herman Melville Was As Separated From A Civilized Literature As The Lost Atlantis Was Said To Have Been From The Great Peoples Of The Earth.

Of All The Animals On Earth, None Is So Brutish As Man When He Seeks The Delirium Of Coition.

Men Are Too Unstable To Be Just; They Are Crabbed Because They Have Not Passed Water At The Usual Time, Or Testy Because They Have Not Been Stroked Or Praised.