We Cannot Perform Our Tasks

In Cases Where Every Thing Is Understood, And Measured, And Reduced To Rule, Love Is Out Of The Question.

Study With Desire Is Real Activity; Without Desire It Is But The Semblance And Mockery Of Activity.

It Is Probable That There Is No One Thing That It Is Of Eminent Importance For A Child To Learn. The True Object Of Juvenile Education, Is To Provide, Against The Age Of Five And Twenty, A Mind Well Regulated, Active, And Prepared To Learn. Whatever Will Inspire Habits Of Industry And Observation, Will Sufficiently Answer This Purpose.

It Is Absurd To Expect The Inclinations And Wishes Of Two Human Beings To Coincide, Through Any Long Period Of Time. To Oblige Them To Act And Live Together Is To Subject Them To Some Inevitable Potion Of Thwarting, Bickering, And Unhappiness.

My Thoughts Will Be Taken Up With The Future Or The Past, With What Is To Come Or What Has Been. Of The Present There Is Necessarily No Image.