"No man, but a blockhead, ever wrote, except for money." - Samuel Johnson

"Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much - surely that may be his epitaph, of which he need not be ashamed." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' "
- Hilaire Belloc

"All the world's a stage, but some of the players have been very badly miscast. "
- Oscar Wilde

"In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach." - Oliver Goldsmith


(Thanks for sending me these wonderful quotations, Laurel!)