I feel that a little time will be my best remedy, which I trust we will await without much anxiety.

Resignation is taught when we cannot help ourselves.

Take nothing I have said discouragingly.

Turn fears into hopes and doubts into faith, and we shall be better if not happier.

There is no use in allowing our doubts and fears to control us; by fostering them we increase them, and we want all our time for something better and higher." Two days later he writes more fully, and this letter we shall give almost entire: "Chelsea, December 26, 1842 .-- BROTHERS: I want to write to you, but what is the use of scrawling on paper if I write what I do not feel--intend?
It is worse than not writing.