It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?

Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.