“Do you think one can always help feeling unpleasantly, mother?”
“I think one can learn either to put down all disagreeable feelings, or to work bravely on and never mind them. But what lessons do you most frequently have trouble with, Charley?”
“Oh! this arithmetic, mother, it is the only thing that troubles me.”
“I will write on your book, two mottos which I wish you to look at, whenever you are fretted, or discouraged by difficulties. The first is:—‘Every boy may be a hero.’ And that you may remember what sort of heroism is to be sought, I will add this verse: ‘He that ruleth his spirit, is greater than he that taketh a city.’”