From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.

Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.