For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

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

Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.

She abounds with lucious faults.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.