Birth: 35 Death: 100
Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too a….
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..
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand..
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest..
A religion without mystics is a philosophy..
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory..
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be..
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly..
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy..
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..
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision..
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures. [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.].
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield..
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery..
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate..
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering..
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone..
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence….
The perfection of art is to conceal art..
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion..
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression..