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.

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.

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

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

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.