William Shenstone
exposed a base quality of human thinking when he wrote, "There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is, that people can commend it without envy.
The
average individual will, without doubt, scorn the intimation that he is superstitious; in fact, he will heartily subscribe to Ben Jonson's epigram.
Self-esteem
is essential to worthy achievement but it must be founded not on human judgment, one's own or another's, but on the estimation of man as God's likeness.
