“Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority. ”

“To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.”

“There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.”

“We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.”

“Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.”

“Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.”

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”