To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.
Be brief, be buoyant, and be brilliant.
A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence.
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.