His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn as in doing it. As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it. While we are postponing, life speeds by. Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires. All things are cause for either laughter or weeping. Live with men as if God saw you; converse with God as if men heard you | 
