For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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.
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.