As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.