There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.
It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.