I will (with your leave) when I return home make one.

They are pleasant sights." College terms were very different in those days from what they are at present, for September 5 finds the boys still in New Haven, and Finley says, "There is but three and a half weeks to Commencement." In this same letter he gives utterance to these filial sentiments: "I now make those only my companions who are the most religious and moral, and I hope sincerely that it will have a good effect in changing that thoughtless disposition which has ever been a striking trait in my character.

As I grow older, I begin to think better of what you have always told me when I was small.

I begin to know by experience that man is born to trouble, and that temptations to do evil are as countless as the stars, but I hope I shall be enabled to shun them." This is from a letter of January 9, 1809:-- "I have been reading the first volume of Professor Silliman's 'Journal' which he kept during his passage to and residence in Europe.

I am very much pleased with it.