He Who Speaks Evil Only Differs From

In Almost Everything, Experience Is More Valuable Than Precept.

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.

Consequently The Student Who Is Devoid Of Talent Will Derive No More Profit From This Work Than Barren Soil From A Treatise On Agriculture.

The Learned Understand The Reason Of Art; The Unlearned Feel The Pleasure.

It Is The Nurse That The Child First Hears, And Her Words That He Will First Attempt To Imitate.