These Are Times In Which A Genius

Deliver Me From Your Cold Phlegmatic Preachers, Politicians, Friends, Lovers And Husbands.

These Are Times In Which A Genius Would Wish To Live. It Is Not In The Still Calm Of Life, Or The Repose Of A Pacific Station, That Great Characters Are Formed.

What Is It That Affectionate Parents Require Of Their Children; For All Their Care, Anxiety, And Toil On Their Accounts? Only That They Would Be Wise And Virtuous, Benevolent And Kind.

It Is To Me A Most Affecting Thing To Hear Myself Prayed For, In Particular As I Do Every Day In The Week, And Disposes Me To Bear With More Composure, Some Disagreeable Circumstances That Attend My Situation.

May Your Mind Be Thoroughly Impressed With The Absolute Necessity Of Universal Virtue And Goodness, As The Only Sure Road To Happiness, And May You Walk Therein With Undeviating Steps.