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.

I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.

One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns that the young think too little and the old too much, and one grows careless about both.

Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.

The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature will rarely, very rarely, approve the first hints of anger.

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.