...r hand to the plow, you have even broken ground, and now look back. There is no going back, and you have duty and all hope to draw you forward. And, a few weeks later, he wrote: Did you ever read Dean Swift 's life? If you have not,—but you have: you have read every thing. Have you brought your Law-School resolution to a focus, and made preparation for next year in any way? Stearns wrote, Aug...