I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.

In art economy is always beauty.

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

There is but one art, to omit.

Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?

Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.