Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.
We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.
As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.