People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

Blame is safer than praise

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.