"The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us, (for a brief period, at least) are, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, persons of mere address, perseverance, effrontery—in a word, busy-bo…"

"I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him."

"He [Longfellow] was guilty of 'the most barbarous class of literary robbery.'"

"If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me."

"The pure Imagination is a faculty, and not a quality."