Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been. - John Greenleaf Whittier

Let the thick curtain fall;
I better know than all
How little I have gained,
How vast the unattained.

What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,—generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.

"And one there was, a dreamer born,
Who, with a mission to fulfill,
Had left the Muses' haunts to turn
The crank of an opinion-mill,
Making his rustic reed of song
A weapon in the war with wrong,...
"A Tent on the Beach