Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea.

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any.

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.

The happier time, the quicker it passes