Someone Who Can Write Aphorisms Should Not

If You Wish To Form A Clear Judgment On Your Friends, Consult Your Dreams.

A Snob Is Unreliable. The Work He Praises Might Just Be Good.

Let My Style Capture All The Sounds Of My Time. This Should Make It An Annoyance To My Contemporaries. But Later Generations Should Hold It To Their Ears Like A Seashell In Which There Is The Music Of An Ocean Of Mud.

Where Do I Find The Time For Not Reading So Many Books?

This Is Something That I Cannot Get Over -- That A Whole Line Could Be Written By Half A Man, That A Work Could Be Built On The Quicksand Of A Character.