Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

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

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

He that has too much to do will do something wrong.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.

It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.