A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.

Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain.

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.