"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission."
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Source: 'A Psalm of Life' (1838)
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