It is not the smallest use to try to make people good, unless you try at the same time — and they feel that you are trying — to make them happy. And you rarely can make another happy, unless you are happy yourself.


Ch. 10 - A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858)


It is not the smallest use to try to make people good, unless you try at the same time — and they feel that you are trying — to make them happy....

It is not the smallest use to try to make people good, unless you try at the same time — and they feel that you are trying — to make them happy....

It is not the smallest use to try to make people good, unless you try at the same time — and they feel that you are trying — to make them happy....

It is not the smallest use to try to make people good, unless you try at the same time — and they feel that you are trying — to make them happy....