I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.

Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!

The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

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

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?

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.

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.