To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

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

Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

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.