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

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

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.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.