“Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.”

“Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.”

“If you would know and not be known live in a city.”

“If a cause be good the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.”

“Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.”

“In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for diose who deny the whole of it.”

“Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another mans sleep.”

“I'm not worried about plagiarism, I don't care if every person between here and Hell's creation put their name on my work as long as it ends up in the eyes of someone that found peace in the words”

“They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.”