With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means.

Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

No man does anything from a single motive.

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.