Nineteen
No one can write correctly without deliberately and laboriously learning how to write correctly. On the other hand, everyone can learn to write correctly who takes sufficient trouble. Correct writing is a mechanical accomplishment; it could be acquired by a stockbroker.
Twenty
An understanding appreciation of literature means an understanding appreciation of the world, and it means nothing else.
Twenty-one
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
Twenty-two
Nothing is easier than to explain an accomplished fact in a nice, agreeable, conventional way.
Twenty-three
Literature is the art of using words. This is not a platitude, but a truth of the first importance, a truth so profound that many writers never get down to it, and so subtle that many other writers who think they see it never in fact really comprehend it.