They had nothing in common but the English language.
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.