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

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute.

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