I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.

Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

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.

Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.