Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?

We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.

Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.