Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.

We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.