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

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

My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin.