That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.

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

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.