And you will not expect me to make money by my pen.

Above all things I detest the writing for money.

Fiction and verse appeal to a besotted public, that judges of the merit of the work by the standard of its taste: avaunt! And journalism for money is Egyptian bondage.

No slavery is comparable to the chains of hired journalism.

My pen is my fountain--the key of me; and I give my self, I do not sell.