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

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly..

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless..

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

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other anim….

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune..

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….

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide..

It is the heart which inspires eloquence..

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity..

Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty. [Lat., Nimis in veritate, et similitudinis quam pulchritudinis amantior.].

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.].

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly..

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us..

(Slaughter) means blood and iron. [Lat., Coedes videtur significare sanguinem et ferrum.].

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be..

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest..

A liar should have a good memory..

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire som….

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice..

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it..