How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.