Who said “I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the…”?

“Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.”

“Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my dear, kiss me and be quiet.”

“Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.”

“Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.”

“Be smart, but never show it.”

“Man is not made for defeat.”

“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

“All our words from loose using have lost their edge.”

“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”

“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”