We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute.
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.