It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

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

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

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

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

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