I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.

The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day.

This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.

My native land, good night!

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.