There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
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.
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.