People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

Good taste is the flower of good sense.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.

If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.

As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least with are the greatest babblers.

Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign.

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.

Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.