Educator

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.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

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

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

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

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

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

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

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

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 to the destruction of his neighbor.

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

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