A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.
Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil.
Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.
Better too much form than too little.
The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.
The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches.