It is not the smallest use to try to make people good, unless you try at the same time - and they feel that you are trying - to make them happy. And you rarely can make another happy, unless you are happy yourself.

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.

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

The plan of this world is infinite similarity and yet infinite variety.

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.

The only way to meet affliction is to pass through it solemnly, slowly, with humility and faith, as the Israelites passed through the sea. Then its very ways of misery will divide, and become to us a wall, on the right side and on the left, until the gulf narrows before our eyes and we land safe on the opposite sore.

Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls.