Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.

The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and validity of these words is in the care of the damned and despised litterati...when their very medium, the very essence of their work, the application of word to thing goes rotten, i.e. becomes slushy and inexact, or excessive or bloated, the whole machinery of social and of individual thought and order goes to pot.