Vain Hopes Are Like Certain

A Mediocre Speech Supported By All The Power Of Delivery Will Be More Impressive Than The Best Speech Unaccompanied By Such Power.

A Great Part Of Art Consists In Imitation. For The Whole Conduct Of Life Is Based On This: That What We Admire In Others We Want To Do Ourselves.

One Thing, However, I Must Premise, That Without The Assistance Of Natural Capacity, Rules And Precepts Are Of No Efficacy.

Those Who Wish To Appear Wise Among Fools, Among The Wise Seem Foolish.

Minds That Are Stupid And Incapable Of Science Are In The Order Of Nature To Be Regarded As Monsters And Other Extraordinary Phenomena; Minds Of This Sort Are Rare. Hence I Conclude That There Are Great Resources To Be Found In Children, Which Are Suffered To Vanish With Their Years. It Is Evident, Therefore, That It Is Not Of Nature, But Of Our Own Negligence, We Ought To Complain.