And if the critics score or ridicule you, consider yourself on the path
to success.
If you have a message for the world, nothing and nobody can prevent you
from delivering it.
He only fails who has nothing to say.
To Mrs. McAllister
_Concerning Her Little Girl_
How strange it seems that your daughter is ten years old.
It is such a brief hour since you wrote me you were eighteen and had
entered Vassar. Having no children of my own to stand as milestones on
life's highway, and keeping a very young heart in my breast all these
years, it seems at times little less than impertinent in the children I
have known to develop so rapidly into matrons and fathers.
I am glad for you that the doctor has reached the desirable goal where
he can rest from his laborious profession for two years, and take that
journey abroad you have so long contemplated. And I am glad that you
feel the satisfaction you say you do, in never having left him alone
for a whole season as you once thought of doing.
A satisfied conscience is a better comrade to journey along beside, than
a remembered pleasure.
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