Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.

A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.