Our Affections Are Our Life.

It Is Chiefly Through Books That We Enjoy The Intercourse With Superior Minds.

Innocent Amusements Are Such As Excite Moderately, And Such As Produce A Cheerful Frame Of Mind, Not Boisterous Mirth; Such As Refresh, Instead Of Exhausting, The System; Such As Recur Frequently, Rather Than Continue Long; Such As Send Us Back To Our Daily Duties Invigorated In Body And Spirit; Such As We Can Partake Of In The Presence And Society Of Respectable Friends; Such As Consist With And Are Favorable To A Grateful Piety; Such As Are Chastened By Self-respect, And Are Accompanied With The Consciousness That Life Has A Higher End Than To Be Amused.

Religion Is Faith In An Infinite Creator, Who Delights In And Enjoins That Rectitude Which Conscience Commands Us To Seek. This Conviction Gives A Divine Sanction To Duty.

The Hills Are Reared, The Seas Are Scooped In Vain If Learning's Altar Vanish From The Plain.

Compassionate Saviour! We Welcome Thee To Our World, We Welcome Thee To Our Hearts. We Bless Thee For The Divine Goodness Thou Hast Brought From Heaven; For The Souls Thou Hast Warmed With Love To Man, And Lifted Up In Love To God; For The Efforts Of Divine Philanthropy Which Thou Hast Inspired; And For That Hope Of A Pure Celestial Life, Through Which Thy Disciples Triumph Over Death.