When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

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.

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

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.