Fame is delightful, but as collateral it doesn't rank high. The sad thing about an optimist is his attitude of mind concerning himself. Write to please yourself, and you will please a part of the people a part of the time. Every good thing has been rejected and jumped on by the glibsome party with overweening faith in his own omniscience. I am today what I am because I was yesterday what I was.
Hypocrites sometimes tell the truth -after all, accidents do happen.
If you do not know what to say, don't say it. Distinctions are transient and trivial. Behind all differences of opinions there lurks a grinning Mephisto. The best way to learn to write, is to write. Success is a matter of outliving your sins.