As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.

Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.

One must be strict even in little things.

We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.

But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it does. But the danger is, that while a man grows better pleased with himself, he may be growing less pleasing to others. Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has presented.

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.