The True Character Of Epistolary Style Is

Words, Like Glasses, Obscure Everything They Do Not Make Clear. Before Using A Fine Word, Make A Place For It.

Think That Day Lost Whose Descending Sun, Views From Thy Hand No Noble Action Done.

Good Impulses Are Naught, Unless They Become Good Actions.

There Is Graciousness And A Kind Of Urbanity In Beginning With Men By Esteem And Confidence. It Proves, At Least, That We Have Long Lived In Good Company With Others And With Our Selves.

Xenophon Wrote With A Swan's Quill, Plato With A Pen Of Gold, And Thucydides With A Brazen Stylus.