There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.

All the bloomy flush of life is fled.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

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

No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.