Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.

Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.

With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.