Educator

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

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

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

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

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

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

A liar should have a good memory.

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

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

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.

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.