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That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.
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That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.
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The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
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The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.
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The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me, and even at this day I still stand somewhat bewildered, like the boy.
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The book that a person is beginning to create or design contains within itself half a life, and God only knows what an expanse of futurity also.
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The book that he has made renders its author this service in return, that so long as the book survives, its author remains immortal and cannot die.
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
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The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.
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The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.
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The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read no other; inquiry is directed to each of his doctrines; it is soon discovered what is sound and what is false; the sound become maxims, and the false beacons.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellence carried to an excess.
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The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone’s neurosis, and we’d have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.
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The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.
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The little girl had the making of a poet in her who, being told to be sure of her meaning before she spoke, said:
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