The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.

If any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou hast to spare; if he press thee further, he is not thy friend at all, for friendship rather chooseth harm to itself than offereth it. If thou be bound for a stranger, thou art a fool; if for a merchant, thou puttest thy estate to learn to swim.

Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.

Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.

God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.