Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.

The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.

There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.

It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water.

Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings