I remember your consoling me under these attacks with bidding me think that I had invented something worth contending for.

Alas! my dear sir, what encouragement is there to an inventor if, after years of toil and anxiety, he has only purchased for himself the pleasure of being a target for every vile fellow to shoot at, and, in proportion as his invention is of public utility, so much the greater effort is to be made to defame, that the robbery may excite the less sympathy?
I know, however, that beyond all this is a clear sky, but the clouds may not break away until I am no longer personally interested whether it be foul or fair.

I wish not to complain, but I have feelings and cannot play the stoic if I would." It was a new experience for Morse to become involved in the intricacies of the law, and, in a letter to a friend, Henry I.Williams, Esq., dated February 22, 1847, he naively remarks: "A student all my life, mostly in a profession which is adverse in its habits and tastes from those of the business world, and never before engaged in a lawsuit, I confess to great ignorance even of the ordinary, commonplace details of a court." His desire to be both just and merciful is shown in a letter to Mr.
Kendall, written on February 16, just before the decision was rendered against him: "I have been in court all day, and have been much pleased with the clearness and, I think, conclusiveness of Mr.Miles's argument.
I think he has produced an evident change in the views of the judge.

Yet it is best to be prepared for the worst, and, even if we succeed in getting the injunction, I wish as much leniency as possible to be shown to the opposing parties.

Indeed, in this I know my views are seconded by you.