Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.

Jacob Fowle entered his Entention of marriage with Phebe Osgood Feb 4 1738

Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing, Though, I confess, much like the character But out of question, ’tis Maria's hand.

The notion that the artist must withhold his or her “generative energy,” diverting it into artistic creation only, seems to have prevailed in a number of the Künstlerromane of the nineteenth century.