To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies — the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said — there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident. (Henry Louis Mencken, A Book Of Prefaces, 1917) Of all those arts in which the wise excell, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. (John Sheffield, Essay On Poetry, 1682) Achilles exists only through Homer. Take away the art of writing from this world and you will take away its glory. (Francois René de Chateaubriand, Les Natchez, 1826)