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.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.

It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.