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

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

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

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.

A liar ought to have a good memory.

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.

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.