The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.

Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.

What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.

Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

Fear loves the idea of danger.