Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.

Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient Atalantis [sic] of Plato was sunk ... The sea would necessarily rush in from all quarters, and form what is now called the Atlantic ocean.

The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.

Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.

He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.

In general, the more one augments the number of divisions of the productions of nature, the more one approaches the truth, since in nature only individuals exist, while genera, orders, and classes only exist in our imagination.

Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.