There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit, with the courage that he faces his foes. Reserved people often really require the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all; and to burst with boldness and good will into the silent sea of their souls, is often to confer on them the first obligations. Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities. I must be able to contradict the friend that I love. There are jilts in friendship as well as in love; and, by the behavior of some men in both, one would almost imagine that they industriously sought to gain the affections of others with a view only of making the parties miserable. Out of love to oneself, one must speak better of a friend than an enemy. Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations. You do not know, for you could never learn it from your own heart, which is all purity and rectitude, what a mixture of good there may be in things evil; and how the greatest criminal, if you look at conduct from his own point of view, or from any side point, may seem not so unquestionably guilty, after all.

We are formed to be happy, and to contribute to the happiness of our fellow creatures. There are no real virtues but the social ones. I wrap myself in the mantle of love and fall asleep, filled with peace. Through the long night peace remains with me, and at the breaking of the new day, I shall still be filled with life and love. I shall go forth into the new day confident and happy. I will give thanks to my inner life for all its marvelous wonders, and for all its wonderful works. I will sing and be glad, for I know that I am hidden with truth in a perfect life. Events, however terrible and strange at the moment of their occurrence, lose by degrees their impression over the mind, for the ideas failing to identify the point at which they aim, relax their attempts, and never revert to the consideration of objects more familiar to them. Innocence in a man, who is prosecuted, is the very worst thing that can attend him, the surest symptom, and often the only cause of his ruin, for he is apt to trust to his innocence, which a rogue never can do, by which means, the proof is apt to run all on the side against him, which being the only thing the law looks upon, he is consequently condemned.

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