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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

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.

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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

A liar should have a good memory.

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

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 the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

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

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.

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.

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

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