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something better, something more useful that what we did. It is natural that we should have such moments if we take life seriously. How could we do otherwise? The wonder is that we are not in a discouraged mood all the time; for who can say that he has accomplished all that he would have liked to accomplish or that he has even done more than a small, very small, part of what he would wish to have done! Our ideals, if they amount to anything, are necessarily very far beyond our results. After all, it is our ideals that count. Is it Emerson or who is it that says - he loves his friends not for [[strikethrough]] their [[/strikethrough]] what they have done but 

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