Seneca.
Resolves.
"To try to be thoroughly poor in spirit, meek, and to be ready to be silent when others speak.
"To learn from every one.
"To try to feel my own insignificance.
"To believe in myself and the powers with which I am entrusted.
"To try to make conversation more useful, and therefore to store my mind with facts, but to guard against a wish to shine.
"To try to despise the principle of the day 'every man his own trumpeter,' and to feel it a degradation to speak of my own doings, as a poor braggart.
"To speak less of self and to think less.
"To contend one by one against evil thoughts.