A liar should have a good memory.
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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.
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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 the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
Usage is the best language teacher.
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures. [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.]
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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