It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

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

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.