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 best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.

The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

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

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.