Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

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