Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
Medicine for the dead is too late
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.