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.

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.