The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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.
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.