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

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

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.

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

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.

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.