I will never, God willing, slay a man in combat; but I am not unanxious to experience on myself the effect of the war-passion, which has had so great an influence on the human race.

It was for the same reason that I determined to marry Amalia, for a man is not a complete Mensch until he is the father of a family; to be which is a condition of his existence, and therefore a duty of his education.
Amalia must wait; she is out of the reach of want, being, indeed, cook to the Frau Prorectorinn Nasenbrumm, my worthy patron's lady.

I have one or two books with me, which no one is likely to take from me, and one in my heart which is the best of all.

If it shall please Heaven to finish my existence here, before I can prosecute my studies further, what cause have I to repine?
I pray God I may not be mistaken, but I think I have wronged no man, and committed no mortal sin.

If I have, I know where to look for forgiveness; and if I die, as I have said, without knowing all that I would desire to learn, shall I not be in a situation to learn EVERYTHING, and what can human soul ask for more?
'Pardon me for putting so many _I_'s in my discourse,' said the candidate, 'but when a man is talking of himself, 'tis the briefest and simplest way of talking.' In which, perhaps, though I hate egotism, I think my friend was right.
Although he acknowledged himself to be a mean-spirited fellow, with no more ambition than to know the contents of a few musty books, I think the man had some good in him; especially in the resolution with which he bore his calamities.