It's astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it. - Dinah Craik

Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful whenever we choose — a theory that many poor hypochondriacs are taunted with till they are nigh driven mad — yet, on the other hand, no sane mind is ever left without the power of self-discipline and self-control in a measure, which measure increases in proportion as it is exercised.

The buttercups across the field Made sunshine rifts of splendour.

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.