The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
Observation is an old man's memory.
Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.
If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.
Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.