A liar should have a good memory.

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

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

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.