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.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

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 next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

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

A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.

To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.