Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.

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

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

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