Sixteen
All literature is the expression of feeling, of passion, of emotion, caused by a sensation of the interestingness of life.
Seventeen
Just as science is the development of common-sense, so is literature the development of common daily speech.
Eighteen
Every man who thinks clearly can write clearly, if not with grace and technical correctness.
Nineteen
It is important, if you wish ultimately to have a wide, catholic taste, to guard against the too common assumption that nothing modern will stand comparison with the classics.
Twenty
In the matter of its own special activities the brain is usually undisciplined and unreliable. We never know what it will do next.