An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.

Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop

To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow for the most part that rejection to be wrong, but charge the fault upon the unskilful manner in which it is given; they admit the efficacy of the medicine, but abhor the nauseousness of the vehicle.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.