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

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

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

She abounds with lucious faults.

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

It is the heart which inspires eloquence.