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.

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

I learned to love despair.

I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.

This is to be along; this, this is solitude!

Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!

Egeria! sweet creation of some heart Which found no mortal resting-place so fair As thine ideal breast.