My cousin the bookseller was no more, and his son cut me.

I took a garret in Warwick Court, and with a few books, my only consolation, I endeavoured to nerve my mind to the future.

It was at this time, Paul, that my studies really availed me.
I meditated much, and I became a true philosopher, namely, a practical one.

My actions were henceforth regulated by principle; and at some time or other, I will convince you that the road of true morals never avoids the pockets of your neighbour.

So soon as my mind had made the grand discovery which Mr.Asgrave had made before me, that one should live according to a system,--for if you do wrong, it is then your system that errs, not you,--I took to the road, without any of those stings of conscience which had hitherto annoyed me in such adventures.