Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.
A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.
To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn
They who are to be judges must also be performers.
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.