Accordingly, almost all the ideas that people have of Greek literature, are ideas formed while they were still very young.

A young man, whatever his genius may be, is no judge of such a writer as Thucydides.

I had no high opinion of him ten years ago.

I have now been reading him with a mind accustomed to historical researches, and to political affairs; and I am astonished at my own former blindness, and at his greatness.

I could not bear Euripides at college.