"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 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."
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."
