And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

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.

He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all

We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

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