Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work.

"Ghost of the Future," he exclaimed, "I fear you more than any spectre I have seen. But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart. Will you not speak to me?"

If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.

What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

And what about the cash, my existence's jewel?

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.