Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.

"The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good;" and without claiming for an instant that title of good for my book, I do not doubt that many a good book has remained unwritten, or, perhaps, being written, has remained unpublished, because there floated before the mind's eye of the author, or possible author, the ideal of a better or a best, which has put him out of all conceit with his good.

Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face.

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.

Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.