Keep your friendships in repair.
A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.
Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.
What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.
Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.
The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.