A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

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

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

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