Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play. It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. | 
