I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.

He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.

A voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better understood, seemed highly probable to many of the aspiring wits in the last century

You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets it on paper, it's not War and Peace anymore; it's comic-book stuff. Your manuscript is both good and original. But the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.

The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.