For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.