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

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Usage is the best language teacher.

A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person