In Coriolanus, the mother's counsel, acted upon in time, would have saved her son from all evil; his momentary forgetfulness of it is his ruin; her prayer, at last, granted, saves himnot, indeed, from death, but from the curse of living as the destroyer of his country.

Again, facts and events are either designed or unintentional, and these last arise either from pure accident, or from some agitation of mind, by accident when a thing has happened in a different way from what was expected,from some agitation, when either forgetfulness, or mistake, or fear, or some impulse of desire has been the acting cause.

But still more bewildering even than her forgetfulness was the conduct of the intruder.

She climbs the hills, she haunts the sea, By madness tortured, driven; One hour's forgetfulness would be A gift from very heaven.

Self-forgetfulness, purity, and love are treasures untoldconstant prayers, prophecies, and anointings.

In the lover's calendar, while there is but one Madonna, there must still be minor saints, to whom it is meet, at certain times and seasons, to offer retrospective candlessaints that, after the manner of many saints, were once such charming sinners for our sakes, that utter forgetfulness of them were an impious boorishness surely unacceptable to the most jealous of Madonnas.

"Forgetfulness is not my weakness," he replied.

Self-forgetfulness is a great virtue, and selfishness a great vice.