The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living:
they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor
intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them
down.--_Colton._
Clear writers, like clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are,
the turbid looks most profound.--_Landor._
When we look back upon human records, how the eye settles upon writers
as the main landmarks of the past.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
~Autumn.~--Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness.--_Keats._