The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.

The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

The good is the beautiful.

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with