~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._