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.

Little things are great to little men.

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.

We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.