In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
Our minds are like our stomaches they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
A liar should have a good memory.
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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.
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful, they do not excite desire.
If you direct your whole thought to work itself none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.