Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it.

In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead

God, he whom everyone knows, by name.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.