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

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

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

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

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.