~Ability.~--Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every
kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the
want of natural abilities.--_Schopenhaufer._
Words must be fitted to a man's mouth,--'twas well said of the fellow
that was to make a speech for my Lord Mayor, when he desired to take
measure of his lordship's mouth.--_Selden._
~Absence.~--Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens,
but much extinguishes it.--_Hannah More._
Absence from those we love is self from self! A deadly
banishment.--_Shakespeare._