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