One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

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

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.

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

Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.