The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.