I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

Consult the Genius of the Place in all.

He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.

For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.