William Collins

“Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.”

“Any book without a mistake in it has had too much money spent on it.”

“How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!”

“When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.”

“By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.”

“Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.”

“In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong.”

“I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.”

“Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.”