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.

Lately we have had many losses.

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

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

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.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

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