There will be time to murder and create.

Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.

Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool.

Redeem the time. Redeem the unread vision of a higher dream.