Birth: 35 Death: 100
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..
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless..
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes..
She abounds with lucious faults..
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy..
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind..
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming..
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplish….
The perfection of art is to conceal art..
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly..
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught..
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end..
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly..
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity..
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory..
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa virtutem est….
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield..
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake..
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate..
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body..
Lately we have had many losses..