The Mind Is Exercised By

Virtue, Though She Gets Her Beginning From Nature, Yet Receives Her Finishing Touches From Learning.

To My Mind The Boy Who Gives Least Promise Is One In Whom The Critical Faculty Develops In Advance Of The Imagination.

A Mediocre Speech Supported By All The Power Of Delivery Will Be More Impressive Than The Best Speech Unaccompanied By Such Power.

That Which Prematurely Arrives At Perfection Soon Perishes.

God, That All-powerful Creator Of Nature And Architect Of The World, Has Impressed Man With No Character So Proper To Distinguish Him From Other Animals, As By The Faculty Of Speech.