Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.

The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.

Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.