A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student, but in vain. His father was a narrow-minded trader, and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition of his son. Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education. He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and in his animated glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.

He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.

My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.