"I have no desire to be famous. I have a desire to be read."

"With me, poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not be profaned by a superficial interest."

"The waggish author of 'The New Mirror' is, I believe, the first who has openly maintained the doctrine that the great end of a writer is to get money."

"There is a strong disposition in mankind to believe in the marvellous."

"Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see."