Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.

Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.

Medicine for the dead is too late

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.