A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.

It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"

When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.

That art is best which suggests most.