God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.

A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.