Aspect Quote by William Shakespeare

“All boys wish to be manly; but they often try to become so by copying the vices of men rather than their virtues. They…

— James Freeman Clarke

“Every man, however brief or inglorious may have been his academical career, must remember with kindness and tenderness the old university comrades and days.…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“He was, besides, the child of a doting grandmother, whose too solicitous attention to him soon taught him a sort of diffidence in himself,…

— Walter Scott

“And long afterwards, in moments of the greatest merriment, there would rise before him the figure of the little clerk with the balding brow,…

— Gogol Nicolai

“this eldest son of the schoolmaster and the clerk of the parish had at fourteen received an education from parents, nature, and books which,…

— George Smith

“[My grandfather] returned to what he called ‘studying.’ He sat looking down at his lap, his left hand idle on the chair arm, his…

— Wendell Berry

It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)

— Jonathan Kellerman

“A youth loathes nothing more than his own callowness. Experience is his object. Experience, however ghastly, for the lad longs before all for the…

— Steven Pressfield

“Word of his great strength, intelligence, and perseverance had spread even this far, and yet his youth was such that my father knew he…

— Daniel Wallace

Lessons hide in his wrinkles. Bells ding in the oldness of eyes. Did he by, any chance, tell children that there are such monstrous…

— Anonymous

“I did feel a concentrated dislike for those boys, who couldn't submit to the odd faithless girlfriend, needling classmate, or dose of working-single-parent distraction--who…

— Lionel Shriver