The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose

And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly.