The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

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.

Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.