Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

Those who doubt themselves most generally err least.

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.