All History Was At First Oral.

Quotation Is The Highest Compliment You Can Pay An Author.

A Man May Write At Any Time, If He Will Set Himself Doggedly To It.

Let Us Be Quick To Repent Of Injuries While Repentance May Not Be A Barren Anguish.

The World Is Not Yet Exhausted: Let Me See Something Tomorrow Which I Never Saw Before.

A Successful Author Is Equally In Danger Of The Diminution Of His Fame, Whether He Continues Or Ceases To Write. The Regard Of The Public Is Not To Be Kept But By Tribute, And The Remembrance Of Past Service Will Quickly Languish Unless Successive Performances Frequently Revive It. Yet In Every New Attempt There Is New Hazard, And There Are Few Who Do Not, At Some Unlucky Time, Injure Their Own Characters By Attempting To Enlarge Them.