It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Things do not change we change.