Who has words at the right moment? True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it. Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.' I'm just going to write because I cannot help it. If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. | 
