There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.