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.

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.