Youth is the season of the passions, and many a man in the thoughtlessness of that period lays the foundation of bitter regret in after life.

Perhaps you gave some of them offence through neglect or thoughtlessness in dealing with them.

And then consider their Christian thoughtlessness for the morrow, how superb and spiritual it is!

"I realize that I may have been a little careless, more from thoughtlessness than anything else; but my heart is all right, sir, and I am glad that my conduct has been brought to your attention, for what you have said enables me to see it in a different light.

If you look upon it as accidental on your part, and thoughtlessness on his, it will feel easier to forgive him perhaps, and I am sure you may.

Nothing is more significant than the lack of conscience with which programmes of violence and of ruin are lightly accepted; nothing is more deplorable than the thoughtlessness with which the germs of new wars are cultivated.