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.

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

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

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.

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

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.