I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
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.
We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
