Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute.

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

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

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.

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.