It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character. — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
Where there is much general deformity nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded some one bodily grace even in over-measure. So, no doubt,… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character. — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
“Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pine-trees which take root in,… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison. — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
There is scarcely a man who is not conscious of the benefits which his own mind has received from the performance of single acts… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
Where there is much general deformity nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded some one bodily grace even in over-measure. So, no doubt, with the… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart. — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or silent. The… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it. — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
