I have no child, I have no will, but an obedient one. Obeying God never brings on public evils. It is, however, painful to know that they are under obligations to a person who could never receive a return. As mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyze the manner of its composition, so sublime intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this Earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it.

It is only what we are vividly conscious of that we can vividly imagine to be seen by Omniscience. Never give more than a second place to the World’s opinion. It is astonishing how large a hole a woodpecker makes with so small a beak; it is owing to successive impressions. Perseverance is the surest road to success. I never give up anything that I choose to do because great works are performed, but by strength, but determination.

You must not forsake the ship in a tempest, because you cannot rule and keep down the winds. Attention, love, admiration, cannot always kept at the stretch, just as a ship is not counted as strong by biding one storm. To other eyes than ours, evil may be good and darkness more beautiful than day, or all alike be fair. It is pleasant to read about whales through their own spectacles. Everything has two sides, the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

If you were sensible of your own good, you would not wish to quit the sphere in which you have been brought up. One place is as good as another; for so as what one does is good, ‘tis no matter for where it may be. Observe that great, mean, brown bird in the zoological gardens, which sits so tame on its perch, and droops and slouches like a drowsy duck. That is the great and soaring eagle. Who would believe it, to look at him? Yet all he wants is to be put in his right place instead of his wrong. He is not himself in man’s cages, belonging to God’s sky.

There is so worse place to starve than in Paris. The appearances of life are there so especially gay, it is so much a magnified beer garden, the houses are so ornate, the theatres so numerous, the very pace of the vehicles is so brisk, that a man in any deep concern of mind or pain of body is constantly driven in upon himself. It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possesses all the attractions of the next World.

The love of pleasure and the fear of pain are the ruling principles of the human heart, in which they maintain uninterrupted struggles for superiority. Every moment of pleasure that you enjoy, account it gain. May we write a poem of love together with your steady melody like a rock, passion, and imagination as deep as the blue sky. May you hear me in your mind upon parting, and never ask whether the changeable World will still be what it is tomorrow.

Though time elapses fast, in my heart, your eyes, at the moment of parting, are remembered forever. Thank you for your tolerance and encouragement. When I was perplex in mistake, it was you who awake my lost heart with your kind affectionate smile.  Pleasure is the only thing worth having a theory about. To make life pleasant, we must have our trifling amusements as well as our sublime transport. Sometimes I wonder if you think of me?

Lustre of jewelry reflects the radiance of your blue eyes, which match a glorious sky. Beautiful dark green reflects the holy sun. Hot wind makes me feel the strength of your teachings. How can I abstain from expressing my gratitude for you? Fate brings us together, but life parts us temporarily, like the moon and the stars, apart but staying together always. With the waving arms upon parting, our hearts get closer.