In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

The heart contracts as the pocket expands.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Pure motives do not insure perfect results.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.