With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.

To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.