We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

It is often little things that are hardest to stand.

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM.

Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me.

If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.