While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.

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

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

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

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

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.