I feel much better, now that I've given up hope.

You have a right to enjoy life, but only on your own time.

Caution: Read no further if you are easily offended. [Thanks for confirming what I suspected about you.]

Things are gradually falling into place on top of me.

Yes, I don't know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniabl…

There is mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought! Gives even affliction a grace And reconciles man to his lot.

At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.