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Fools make the text, and men of wit the commentaries. [Fr., Les sots font le lexte, et les hommes d’esprit les commentaires.]
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For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her.
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For no man can write anything who does not think that he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.
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For popular purposes, at least, the aim of literary artists should be similar to that of Rubens in his landscapes, of which, without neglecting the minor traits or finishing, he was chiefly solicitous to present the leading effect, or what we may call the inspiration.
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For who can write so fast as men run mad?
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For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.
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Friend, howsoever thou camest by this book, I will assure thee thou wert least in my thoughts when I writ it.
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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, ‘as a king’s favorite or a king.’
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Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.
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Gonzo journalism is a style of ‘reporting’ based on William Faulkner’s idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism…
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Gracious heavens!’ he cries out, leaping up and catching hold of his hair, ‘what’s this? Print!’
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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Habits of close attention, thinking heads, Become more rare as dissipation spreads, Till authors hear at length one general cry Tickle and entertain us, or we die!
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He [Milton] was a Phidias that could cut a Colossus out of a rock, but could not cut heads out of cherry stones.
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He that commeth in print because he woulde be knowen, is like the foole that commeth into the Market because he woulde be seen.
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He that writes Or makes a feast, more certainly invites His judges than is friends; there’s not a guest But will find something wanting or ill-drested.
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He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.
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He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Herder and Schiller both in their youth intended to study as surgeons; but Destiny said, ‘No, there are deeper wounds than those of the body,–heal the deeper!’ and they wrote.
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His [Burke’s] imperial fancy has laid all nature under tribute, and has collected riches from every scene of the creation and every walk of art.
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