Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.

A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

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.

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.