Good Writers Are Of Necessity Rare.

Those Works Alone Can Have Enduring Success Which Successfully Appeal To What Is Permanent In Human Nature -- Which, While Suiting The Taste Of The Day, Contain Truths And Beauty Deeper Than The Opinions And Tastes Of The Day.

Imagination Is Not The Exclusive Appanage Of Artists, But Belongs In Varying Degrees To All Men.

There Are Occasions When The Simplest And Fewest Words Surpass In Effect All The Wealth Of Rhetorical Amplification.

It Is Not Enough That A Man Has Clearness Of Vision, And Reliance On Sincerity, He Must Also Have The Art Of Expression, Or He Will Remain Obscure.

All Great Authors Are Seers.