Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.