But these master-poets they will have their own absurd courses: they will be informed of nothing! BEN JONSON, Bartholomew Fair. All truly wise thoughts have already been thought many times. The best that we can do is to rethink them. ANON. A man, who is not born with a poetical genius, can never be a poet, or, at best, an extreme bad one. CHESTERFIELD, Letters. December 26, 1749. I have always felt that whatever the Divine Providence permitted to occur I was not too proud to report. DANA, Art of Newspaper Making. That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time. COLTON, Lacon. Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word: Wait! LONGFELLOW, Hyperion. Bk. I, ch. 8. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? Much Ado About Nothing. ii, 3. A woman who writes commits two sins: she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women. A. KARR. |