We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.