Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.