Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.
The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.
Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.
Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.
Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.