John Frederick Boyes

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

Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.

— John Frederick Boyes

“Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pine-trees which take…

— John Frederick Boyes

Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

— John Frederick Boyes

There is scarcely a man who is not conscious of the benefits which his own mind has received from the performance of…

— John Frederick Boyes

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

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

— John Frederick Boyes

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

— John Frederick Boyes

Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a…

— John Frederick Boyes

There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or…

— John Frederick Boyes

It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.

— John Frederick Boyes

We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be…

— John Frederick Boyes

Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all…

— John Frederick Boyes