Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge. English poet, literary critic and philosopher (1772–1834) Sleep
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius-- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.