I fear, the inevitable conclusion we must all come to is, that in the world happiness is quite indefinable. We can no more grasp it than we can grasp the sun in the sky or the moon in the water. We can feel it interpenetrating our whole being with warmth and strength; we can see it in a pale reflection shining elsewhere; or in its total absence, we, walking in darkness, learn to appreciate what it is by what it is not.

The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from it,--in degree, perhaps, expiate it; but to brood over it is utter madness.

we are so scornful when we are young!

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.

There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.

Down in the deep, up in the sky , I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till I die The old familiar faces.

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.