We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen. - Philip Dormer Stanhope

There are several short intervals during the day, between studies and pleasures: instead of sitting idle and yawning, in those intervals, take up any book, though ever so trifling a one, even down to a jest-book; it is still better than doing nothing.

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.