Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.

Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the unexpected and never indulgent with the apparently unexplainable.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.

Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if the angels have any fun in them, how we must divert them!

I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.