If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.
We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.
I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.
If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.
Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.
I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
When God's children disobeyed their heavenly Father, they damaged everything. When Adam and Eve rebelled against the King of the universe, they broke the whole world. This is why there is evil and suffering. Bad things happen in a world that's broken.
Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon blasted by rashness and negligence, and great designs which are defeated by inexperience. In age, we have knowledge and prudence, without spirit to exert, or motives to prompt them; we are able to plan schemes, and regulate measures, but have not time remaining to bring them to completion.
These were choice documents to me. . . They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance.