There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game; in which the Booksellers are the Kings; The Critics the Knaves; the Public, the Pack; and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.