Know That Morality Is A Curb, Not

Never Write Anything That Does Not Give You Great Pleasure. Emotion Is Easily Transferred From The Writer To The Reader.

Professional Critics Are Incapable Of Distinguishing And Appreciating Either Diamonds In The Rough Or Gold In Bars. They Are Traders, And In Literature Know Only The Coins That Are Current. Their Critical Lab Has Scales And Weights, But Neither Crucible Or Touchstone.

Men Have Torn Up The Roads Which Led To Heaven, And Which All The World Followed; Now We Have To Make Our Own Ladders.

It Is Better To Debate A Question Without Settling It Than To Settle A Question Without Debating It.

One Should Choose For A Wife Only Such A Woman As He Would Choose For A Friend, Were She A Man.