To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.
Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.
A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
Be brief, be buoyant, and be brilliant.
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.