It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.
Jean Antoine Petit-SennThere is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.
Jean Antoine Petit-SennThe wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, "Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn