Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

It is the heart which inspires eloquence.

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

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.