A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty

I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.

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.

With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms.

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.