Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort; and who, if they could only have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame.