I hate to write, but I love to have written.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

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.