A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!

'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.

The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.

The best time for marriage will be towards thirty, for as the younger times are unfit, either to choose or to govern a wife and family, so, if thou stay long, thou shalt hardly see the education of thy children, who, being left to strangers, are in effect lost; and better were it to be unborn than ill-bred; for thereby thy posterity shall either perish, or remain a shame to thy name.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.

The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.