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I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there...
But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes...
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. . . I do not...
Opinions are made to be changed -- or how is truth to be got at?
Source: Letter, 9...
Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print;
A book's a book, although there's nothing...
I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up...
For in itself a thought,
A slumbering thought, is capable of years,
And curdles a long life into one...
I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
Source: Letter, 20 Jan. 1811;...
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand...
In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after...
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel,...
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
Source:...
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
Source: In
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at...
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
Source: In
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
Source: Byron's Letters...
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved...
This is the patent age of new inventions
For killing bodies, and saving souls,
All propagated with the best of...
When we think we lead we are most led.
Source: In
My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all...