Have a heart that never hardens

I have had my share of sorrows-more than the common lot, perhaps, but I have borne them ill. I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation.

At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .

My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

Reflect upon your present blessings