Usage Is The Best Language Teacher.

Suffering Itself Does Less Afflict The Senses Than The Apprehension Of Suffering.

Consequently The Student Who Is Devoid Of Talent Will Derive No More Profit From This Work Than Barren Soil From A Treatise On Agriculture.

Forbidden Pleasures Alone Are Loved Immoderately; When Lawful, They Do Not Excite Desire.

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.

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.