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

Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.

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

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

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