What We Want To Tell,

There Is A Good And A Bad Light In Which Every Thing That Befalls Us May Be Taken. If The Human Mind Will Busy Itself To Make Theworst Of Every Disagreeable Occurrence, It Will Never Want Woe.

There Is A Pride, A Self-love, In Human Minds That Will Seldom Be Kept So Low As To Make Men And Women Humbler Than They Ought To Be.

The Nature Of Familiar Letters, Written, As It Were, To The Moment, While The Heart Is Agitated By Hopes And Fears, On Events Undecided, Must Plead An Excuse For The Bulk Of A Collection Of This Kind. Mere Facts And Characters Might Be Comprised In A Much Smaller Compass: But, Would They Be Equally Interesting?

Tired Of Myself Longing For What I Have Not

Love Is A Blazing, Crackling, Green-wood Flame, As Much Smoke As Flame; Friendship, Married Friendship Particularly, Is A Steady,intense, Comfortable Fire. Love, In Courtship, Is Friendship In Hope; In Matrimony, Friendship Upon Proof.