A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
Usage is the best language teacher.
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.
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.