Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.