As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

Medicine for the dead is too late

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.

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

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.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.