It Is Seldom That Minds Long Exercised

[personal] Industry Must Be Faint And Languid, Which Is Not Excited By The Sense Of Personal Interest.

A Taste For Books, Which Is Still The Pleasure And Glory Of My Life.

To The University Of Oxford I Acknowledge No Obligation; And She Will As Cheerfully Renounce Me For A Son, As I Am Willing To Disclaim Her For A Mother. I Spent Fourteen Months At Magdalen College: They Proved The Fourteen Months The Most Idle And Unprofitable Of My Whole Life.

It Was Here That I Suspended My Religious Inquiries (aged 17).

Whenever The Spirit Of Fanaticism, At Once So Credulous And So Crafty, Has Insinuated Itself Into A Noble Mind, It Insensibly Corrodes The Vital Principles Of Virtue And Veracity.