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86 LETTEES.
happiness might easUy displace us from our
true point of view.
is alone truly happy.
The just, virtuous man,
He bears indestructible
tranquUlity of mind in himself, and lives in
peace with himself and the world.
independent of outward vicissitudes.
He is
Fickle
fortune cannot rob him of his happiness of
soul.
His virtues win for him the joys of
friendship, and, even if friends desert iim,
an approving conscience gives him comfort,
and God and good angels are with him.
Yet
he ought not to seek virtue merely for the
pleasure that wUl foUow it.
Indeed he, who
would succeed in any of the noble aims of
Hfe, must love them for themselves, and not
for their rewards. Orator, poet, artist, each
must love his profession, and can never attain
true excellence with
no higher inspiration
than the hope of pecuniary reward; he must
have a higher love of his caUing even than
the mere luxury of taste.
In the sphere of