When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. - Samuel Butler

"I have been told lately that Fuseli was travelling by coach and a gentleman opposite him said: "I understand, Mr. Fuseli, that you... I have been told lately that Fuseli was travelling by coach and a gentleman opposite him said: "I understand, Mr. Fuseli, that you are a painter; it may interest you to know that I have a daughter who paints on velvet."
Fuseli rose instantly and said in a strong foreign accent, "Let me get out."

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.