Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force — John Frederick Boyes

"If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for a want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand."

"Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye for our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve."

"Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart."

"It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery."

"It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments."

"We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in its performances."