Medicine For The Dead Is Too Late

To My Mind The Boy Who Gives Least Promise Is One In Whom The Critical Faculty Develops In Advance Of The Imagination.

Prune What Is Turgid, Elevate What Is Commonplace, Arrange What Is Disorderly, Introduce Rhythm Where The Language Is Harsh, Modify Where It Is Too Absolute.

Study Depends On The Goodwill Of The Student, A Quality That Cannot Be Secured By Compulsion.

Too Exact, And Studious Of Similitude Rather Than Of Beauty. [lat., Nimis In Veritate, Et Similitudinis Quam Pulchritudinis Amantior.]

The Pretended Admission Of A Fault On Our Part Creates An Excellent Impression.