To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.