Ideas Are Easy To Conceive, Less Easy

Postal Officials Say That Before Christmas They Receive Tons Of Letters Written To Santa Claus, But After Christmas How Few Letters Of Thanks Are Sent To Him! From Childhood Onward, Human Beings Seem To Be Characterized By Thanklessness.

There Are Few, I Believe, In This Enlightened Age, Who Will Not Acknowledge That Slavery As An Institution Is A Moral And Political Evil.

But What A Cruel Thing Is War To Separate And Destroy Families And Friends.

My Heart Bleeds At The Death Of Every One Of Our Gallant Men.

Shake Off Those Gloomy Feelings. Drive Them Away. Fix Your Mind And Pleasures Upon What Is Before You.all Is Bright If You Will Think It So. All Is Happy If You Will Make It So. Do Not Dream. It Is Too Ideal, Too Imaginary. Dreaming By Day, I Mean. Live In The World You Inhabit. Look Upon Things As They Are. Take Them As You Find Them. Make The Best Of Them. Turn Them To Your Advantage.