And I am also inclined to believe that in many cases, though assuredly not in all, whatever is effected by one person upon another can also be brought about in one's self by patience in forethought, self-suggestion, and the continued will which they awaken.
_We can revive by this process old well-nigh forgotten trains of thought_.

This is difficult but possible.

It belongs to an advanced stage of experience or may be found in very susceptible subjects.

I do not belong at all to the latter, but I have perfectly succeeded in continuing a dream; that is to say, I have woke up three times during a dream, and, being pleased with it, wished it to go on, then fallen asleep and it went on, like three successive chapters in a novel.
_We can subdue the habit of worrying ourselves and others needlessly about every trifling or serious cause of irritation which enters our minds_.

There are many people who from a mere idle habit or self-indulgence and irrepressible loquacity make their own lives and those of others very miserable--as all my readers can confirm from experience.