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

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.

Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I can swallow gruel soup, egg soup, and all manner of soups, without making faces much. Secondly, I can pretty well live without tea.

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

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

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?