If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about.

Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.

When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.

Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths.

Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.

You have two choices, write about something of significance or do something someone wants to write about.

I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn If I make verses-'tis in spite Of nature and my stars I write.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.