"Few sons attain the praise of their great sires, and most their sires disgrace" — Homer

Men are but children of a larger growth.

Source: All for Love; Or, The World Well Lost (1677)

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history

I am swimming in dishonor like a fish in water

Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that, being nothing, art every thing!

Source: Essays of Elia, Oxford in the Vacation

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral

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