Never cut what you can untie.
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.