How often, for hours, have I mourned over errors; yet grief was of no avail, except to make my future more guarded." "And that was much gained," said Florence, breathing deeply with a sense of relief.

"If we cannot recall and correct the past, we can at least be more guarded in the future.

This is the effect of my own experience.

Ah! if we properly considered the action of our present upon the future, how guarded would we be.

All actions are in the present, and the moment they are done the present becomes the past, over which Memory presides.