You are qualifying yourself for one of the first literary professions -- and it is one of the greatest matters of joy to me to think that you are.

You are bidding fair to stand, where no doubt you will stand, at the head of society.

Nothing is beyond your powers; and your powers will stop short of nothing within their reach.

I know you, and hug myself (not having you at hand) every day to think what sort of a brother I have got.
"Governor, I have something in me too, and I am just now in a place _not_ calculated to develope or cultivate the finer part of a man's nature.

My associates, without an exception, are boors and donkeys, not unfrequently combining the agreeable properties of both in one anomalous animal yclept a clown.
With them my days, for the greater part, are spent; and my nights in a series of calculations almost equally extinguishing to any brightness of mind or spirit.