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..

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….

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield..

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept..

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue..

Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambit….

It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time..

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune..

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite..

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set..

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues..

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….

Usage is the best language teacher..

A liar ought to have a good memory..

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing..

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes..

Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura sumi….

One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy..

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture..

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery..