 Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture. |
| When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield. |
| To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination. |
| When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. |
| A liar should have a good memory. |
| It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort. |
| For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set. |
| The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice. |
| As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone. |
| It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate. |
| Verse satire indeed is entirely our own. |
| Without natural gifts technical rules are useless. |
| Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. |
| Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. |
| It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing. |
