Satire.—To lash the vices of a guilty age.—Churchill.
Thou shining supplement of public laws!—Young.
By satire kept in awe, shrink from ridicule, though not from law.—Byron.
When dunces are satiric I take it for a panegyric.—Swift.
Scandal.—Believe that story false that ought not to be true.—Sheridan.
Scandal has something so piquant, it is a sort of cayenne to the mind.—Byron.
School.—More is learned in a public than in a private school from emulation: there is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one centre—Johnson.
Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad,—a person less imposing,—in the eyes of some, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.—Brougham.
The whining school-boy, with his satchel, and shining morning face, creeping like a snail, unwillingly to school.—Shakespeare.
Science.—They may say what they like; everything is organized matter. The tree is the first link of the chain, man is the last. Men are young, the earth is old. Vegetable and animal chemistry are still in their infancy. Electricity, galvanism,—what discoveries in a few years!—Napoleon.