Always keep in mind the uselessness of contending with the inflexible and inevitable processes of nature; but never let them become your masters when you can make them your servants.
Resignation is the more of a virtue the less it is exercised. A healthy tree bends before the blast, but straightens itself the moment the wind lulls. Resignation to evils that can be avoided is indolence or apathy.
When the world seems a desert to you and life a blank, reflect whether you have not had just such feelings before, and overlived them to enjoy happy days and smiling seasons.
Seek sympathy for your losses from a woman, for your failures from a man. A woman will not understand why you tried, if you failed.
Half of happiness is the recognition that we are happy; and half of misery is the forgetting how many causes of happiness we have.