Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is not even sincerely professed in our colleges. The consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretrievably.

The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a moral one.

I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.

When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because they preferred it to any other. Yet they honestly think there is no choice left.

I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.

Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow.