It is necessary to be particularly on your guard with regard to the young ladies, into whose company you are introduced - it is perfectly well understood in society that ladies may shew to youths in the position of Private Pupils a sort of kindness and attention, which they would not think of shewing if these youths were a little older and more out of the world.
Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?
And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchelUnwillingly to school.
He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
And with unwearied fingers drawing outThe lines of life, from living knowledge hid.
Rocking on a lazy billow Sweet labour's prize.
Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look,The fields his study, nature was his book.
Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are heavy.
The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort, is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame?Which dust was Bill, and which was Joe?