My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it.

Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause

In the most general applause discordant voices will always be heard

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.

Sure the shovel and tongs / To each other belongs.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.