Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or rather, have made it desired.
If we begin by overrating the being we love, we shall end by treating it with wholesale injustice.
It is dangerous to abandon one’s self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
We learn to recognize a mere blunting of the conscience in that incapacity for indignation which is not to be confounded with the gentleness of charity, or the reserve of humility.
February 7, 1872.—Without faith a man can do nothing.
But faith can stifle all science.