The perfection of art is to conceal art.
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
Usage is the best language teacher.