Politeness smooths wrinkles.

Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.

Justice is the right of the weakest.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.