Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. - Samuel Johnson

Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do.

In misery's darkest cavern known,
His useful care was ever nigh
Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan,
And lonely want retir'd to die.

The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.