Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.

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The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.

Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.

All our acts have sacramental possibilities.

I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.

The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.