A Fluent Writer Always Seems More Talented

Mediocrity Is Excellent To The Eyes Of Mediocre People.

Old Age Deprives The Intelligent Man Only Of Qualities Useless To Wisdom.

Criticism Even Should Not Be Without Its Charms. When Quite Devoid Of All Amenities, It Is No Longer Literary.

Avoid Singularity. There May Often Be Less Vanity In Following The New Modes Than In Adhering To The Old Ones. It Is True That The Foolish Invent Them, But The Wise May Conform To, Instead Of Contradicting, Them.

Proverbs May Be Said To Be The Abridgment Of Wisdom.