"It is so easy to forget a kindness, and to remember a kick. Yet controlling our recollections is almost as important as controlling our temper. We are apt to forget completely a hundred little kindnesses and courtesies which one has shown us, and to remember a single careless slight or thoughtless word. Often we hear it said of some wrong or foolish deed, 'I have never thought so well of that man since then; it was there he showed his real character,'--as if a man's real character appeared more in one separate deed to which, perhaps, he was sorely tempted, than in the striving and overcoming of many days and years." "Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better than we are. And God sees us as we are altogether, not in separate feelings or actions, as our fellow-men see us. We are always doing each other injustice, and thinking better or worse of each other than we deserve, because we only hear and see separate words and actions. We don't see each other's whole nature." GEORGE ELIOT. "Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others." GEORGE ELIOT. Unbalanced Memory APRIL 21 "Strange endurance of human vanity! a million of much more important conversations have escaped one since then, most likely--but the memory of this little mortification (for such it is, after all) remains quite fresh in the mind, and unforgotten, though it is a trifle, and more than half a score of years old. We forgive injuries, we survive even our remorse for great wrongs that we ourselves commit; but I doubt if we ever forgive slights of this nature put upon us, or forget circumstances in which our self-love has been made to suffer." W. M. THACKERAY. "A past error may urge a grand retrieval." GEORGE ELIOT. "Memory is not a pocket, but a living instructor, with a prophetic sense of the values which he guards; a guardian angel set there within you to record your life, and by recording it to animate you to uplift it." EMERSON. "Silence a great Peacemaker" APRIL 22 "Hard speech between those who have loved is hideous in the memory, like the sight of greatness and beauty sunk into vice and rags." GEORGE ELIOT. "I don't want to say anything nasty, because nasty words always leave a scar behind." _Isabel Carnaby_, ELLEN THORNEYCROFT FOWLER. "Silence is a great peacemaker." LONGFELLOW.