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

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

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

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.