A liar should have a good memory.
~ Quintilian
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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.
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
