What writers are expected to write, they write; or else they do not write at all; but, like the writer of these lines, stop discouraged, live disheartened, and die leaving fragments which their friends treasure, but which a rushing world never heeds.
Bagehot reflects on the struggles of writers who feel pressured to conform to expectations, often leading to unfulfilled potential.
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Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.
They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.
No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.
And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.
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