A liar ought to have a good memory.

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

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

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

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

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.

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