It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting...
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety and mind differs from mind...
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical...
When we cannot hope to win it is an advantage to yield.
Our minds are like our stomaches they are whetted by the change of their food...
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
In almost everything experience is more valuable than precept.
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
As regards parents I should like to see them as highly educated as possible...
Winners I am convinced imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is I believe no other way to live.
