We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it. - Dinah Craik

I fear, the inevitable conclusion we must all come to is, that in the world happiness is quite indefinable. We can no more grasp it than we can grasp the sun in the sky or the moon in the water. We can feel it interpenetrating our whole being with warmth and strength; we can see it in a pale reflection shining elsewhere; or in its total absence, we, walking in darkness, learn to appreciate what it is by what it is not.

[T]here are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.