Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse.

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

What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.

A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.

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

Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.

The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.