Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
Even the good can become careless without the Lord's being there to chasten.
If your are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.
The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.
How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than the mere mind or intellect is: the kinship you celebrate in these personalities is your own dismembered Orpheus stumbling across another fine organ to rejoin to itself. I put it this way: aristic psyche loves itself enough to chasten itself, to put itself through boot camp for the sake of being competent for life, alive to life.
Regrets over the past should chasten the future.