4. "The University Church is a place too much neglected by the
young men up here." Thus said the learned Selwyn, {5} and he said
well. How far better would it be if each man's own heart was a
little University Church, the pericardium a little University
churchyard, wherein are buried the lust of the flesh, the pomps and
vanities of this wicked world; the veins and arteries, little
clergymen and bishops ministering therein; and the blood a stream of
soberness, temperance and chastity perpetually flowing into it.

5. The deluge went before, misery followed after, in the middle
came a Puseyite playing upon an organ. Reader, flee from him, for
he playeth his own soul to damnation.

6. Church music is as the whore of Babylon, or the ramping lion who
sought whom he might devour; music in a church cannot be good, when
St. Paul bade those who were merry to sing psalms. Music is but
tinkling brass, and sounding cymbals, which is what St. Paul says he
should himself be, were he without charity; he evidently then did
not consider music desirable.

7. The most truly religious and only thoroughly good man in
Cambridge is Clayton, {6} of Cams.

8. "Charity is but the compassion that we feel for our own vices
when we perceive their hatefulness in other people." Charity, then,
is but another name for selfishness, and must be eschewed
accordingly.

9. A great French king was walking one day with the late Mr. B.,