Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.

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.

In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

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

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

A temperate style is alone classical.