Despair Snuffs The Sun From The Firmament.

I Find My Past In My Present, And From These Forecast My Future.

Cities With All Their Advantages Have Something Hostile To Liberal Learning, The Seductions Are So Subtle And Accost The Senses So Openly On All Sides.

Sloth Is The Tempter That Beguiles And Expels From Paradise.

Books Are The Most Mannerly Of Companions, Accessible At All Times, In All Moods, Frankly Declaring The Author's Mind, Without Offense.

Equanimity Is The Gem In Virtue's Chaplet, And St. Sweetness The Loveliest In Her Calendar.