Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

The first pale blossom of the unripened year.

The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.

it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.