There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.