The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.

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

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

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

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.

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