Intellect Really Exists In Its Products; Its

Pedantry Consists In The Use Of Words Unsuitable To The Time, Place, And Company.

The Doing Evil To Avoid An Evil Cannot Be Good.

The Definition Of Good Prose Is Proper Words In Their Proper Places; Of Good Verse, The Most Proper Words In Their Proper Places.the Propriety Is In Either Case Relative. The Words In Prose Ought To Express The Intended Meaning, And No More; If They Attract Attention To Themselves, It Is, In General, A Fault.

Humor Is Consistent With Pathos, Whilst Wit Is Not.

Nothing Can Permanently Please, Which Doesn't Contain In Itself The Reason Why It Is So, And Not Otherwise.