What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?
Methinks I see the wanton hours flee,And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me.
All writing comes by the grace of God, and all doing and having.
'Tis not how well an author says,But 'tis how much, that gathers praise.
Tantum series juncturaque pollet.
Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true,But are not critics to their judgment too?
And force them, though it was in spiteOf Nature and their stars, to write.
A man may write at any time if he set himself doggedly to it.
None but an author knows an author's cares,Or Fancy's fondness for the child she bears.
Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.
Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!
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