The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow a worse guide.

Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.

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.

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!