Time heals all things at last; yet it depends much on us in our sufferings, whether Time shall send us forth healed, indeed, but maimed and crippled and callous, or whether, looking to the great Physician of sorrows, and coworking with him, we come forth stronger and fairer even for our wounds. * * * * * [Sidenote: Help in sorrow.] One soul redeemed will do more to lift the burden of sorrow than all the blandishments and diversions of art, all the alleviations of luxury, all the sympathy of friends. THE MAYFLOWER. [Sidenote: Affinity of opposites.] From that time a friendship commenced between the two which was a beautiful illustration of the affinities of opposites. It was like a friendship between morning and evening,—all freshness and sunshine on one side, and all gentleness and peace on the other. * * * * * [Sidenote: Superiority.] It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others. * * * * * [Sidenote: Sympathy.] The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow. * * * * * [Sidenote: God’s sympathy.] It is well for man that there is one Being who sees the suffering heart _as it is_, and not as it manifests itself through the repellences of outward infirmity, and who, perhaps, feels more for the stern and wayward than for those whose gentler feelings win for them human sympathy. * * * * * [Sidenote: Influence.] He had traced her, even as a hidden streamlet may be traced, by the freshness, the verdure of heart, which her deeds of kindness had left wherever she had passed. * * * * * [Sidenote: Capacity of feeling.] A very unnecessary and uncomfortable capacity of _feeling_, which, like a refined ear for music, is undesirable, because, in this world, one meets with discord ninety-nine times where one meets with harmony once. * * * * * [Sidenote: Heart-wisdom _vs._ worldly wisdom.] How very contrary is the obstinate estimate of the heart to the rational estimate of worldly wisdom! Are there not some who can remember when one word, one look, or even the withholding of a word, has drawn their heart more to a person than all the substantial favors in the world? By ordinary acceptation, substantial kindness respects the necessaries of animal existence, while those wants which are peculiar to mind, and will exist with it forever, by equally correct classification, are designated as sentimental ones, the supply of which, though it will excite more gratitude in fact, ought not to in theory. * * * * * [Sidenote: Living together.]