The Perfection Of Art Is To Conceal

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

Virtue, Though She Gets Her Beginning From Nature, Yet Receives Her Finishing Touches From Learning.

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.]

An Evil-speaker Differs From An Evil-doer Only In The Want Of Opportunity.

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 Animals, As By The Faculty Of Speech.