Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

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

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

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

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.