God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

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

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.