“While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.”

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

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 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.

Usage is the best language teacher.

A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.

Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

A liar ought to have a good memory.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.

The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!

Obscure shadows on the mind are much scarier than the dark shadows of the night.

If a quote changes your life in a good way, keep it in your mind and in your heart to give it to someone else too!

All the beautiful corners of the world are the greatest mind and body healers!

When the life is wavy, keep your mind smooth!

I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.

Self-respect is the root of discipline