When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

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

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

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

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

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.