Two
Beware of hope, and beware of ambition! Each is excellently tonic, like German competition, in moderation, but all of you are suffering from self-indulgence in the first, and very many of you are ruining your constitutions with the second.
Three
As a matter of fact, people “indulge” in remorse; it is a somewhat vicious form of spiritual pleasure.
Four
When a thing is thoroughly well done it often has the air of being a miracle.
Five
After all the shattering discoveries of science and conclusions of philosophy, mankind has still to live with dignity amid hostile nature, and in the presence of an unknowable power, and mankind can only succeed in this tremendous feat by the exercise of faith and of that mutual goodwill which is based in sincerity and charity.
Six
All the days that are to come will more or less resemble the present day, until you die.