If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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.
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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.
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
A liar should have a good memory.
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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.
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
