What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?
The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.