I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.
While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
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