Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.

Our life is woven wind.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.

TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.