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.

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.

Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.