The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.