Those ideas which, in others, are casual or obscure, which are entertained in moments of abstraction and solitude, and easily escape when the scene is changed, have obtained an immoveable hold upon his mind.

The conclusions which long habit has rendered familiar, and, in some sort, palpable to his intellect, are drawn from the deepest sources.

All his actions and practical sentiments are linked with long and abstruse deductions from the system of divine government and the laws of our intellectual constitution.

He is, in some respects, an enthusiast, but is fortified in his belief by innumerable arguments and subtilties.
His father's death was always regarded by him as flowing from a direct and supernatural decree.

It visited his meditations oftener than it did mine.