many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.

Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.