Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.