I don't lay down the law for anybody else. But I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.... Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
