always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices: —

“Forgive his crimes, forgive his virtues too,

Those smaller faults, half converts to the right.”

It is the highest power of divine moments that they abolish our contritions also.

I accuse myself of sloth and unprofitableness day by day; but when these waves of God flow into me I no longer reckon lost time. I no longer poorly compute my possible achievement by what remains to me of the month or the year; for these moments confer a sort of omnipresence and omnipotence which asks nothing of duration, but sees that the energy of the mind is commensurate with the work to be done, without time.