“When a Frenchman reads of the garden of Eden, I do not doubt but he concludes it…” — Horace Walpole

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.