"My father's views for me, which were to guide his choice of college, were twofold. He really wanted me to learn; to g…"

"But there was in my father's mind another sentiment, less creditable to him, than the wish to give me the best educat…"

"About 1500 it seemed as if Europe was about to cast off at one effort the slough of feudal barbarism, and to step at …"

"I wanted not merely to get up my classics, but to penetrate to the secrets and mysteries which I vaguely understood t…"

"... I began at the beginning, and read Hind's Logic, Whately's Logic, Reid's Enquiry into the Human Mind on the Princ…"

"Another book read this term seized upon my interest in an exceptional way, this was Gibbon's Autobiography. I had lon…"

"In the Diary which begins 1845 there is a much larger infusion of secular matter. I find myself deep in the literary …"

"Pattison lived through a formative period in the history of the modern university in England, and in his person he em…"

"It is clear that there are as many different languages as peoples in this island. The Scots, however, and the Welsh, …"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"