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.

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

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

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.