There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

It is not difficult to conceive, however, that for many reasons a man writes much better than he lives. For without entering into refined speculations, it may be shown much easier to design than to perform. A man proposes his schemes of life in a state of abstraction and disengagement, exempt from the enticements of hope, the solicitations of affection, the importunities of appetite, or the depressions of fear.

A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.

Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.

Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted.

To buried merit rise the tardy bust.