Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.
The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.