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

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.

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

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

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

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

Minds that are stupid and incapable of science are in the order of nature to be regarded as monsters and other extraordinary phenomena; minds of this sort are rare. Hence I conclude that there are great resources to be found in children, which are suffered to vanish with their years. It is evident, therefore, that it is not of nature, but of our own negligence, we ought to complain.