Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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.
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.