In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
Our minds are like our stomaches they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful, they do not excite desire.
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
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.