Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.

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!

I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.

The prosecution of [Warren] Hastings, though he should escape at last, must have good effect. It will alarm the servants of the Company in India, that they may not always plunder with impunity, but that there may be a retrospect; and it will show them that even bribes of diamonds to the Crown may not secure them from prosecution.

[King René of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he would not bedisturbed when painting a picture of a partridge.