We must not lose heart, or it will be the worse both for ourselves and for those whom we love.

To struggle, and again and again to renew the conflict--THIS is life's inheritance." [1412] In sickness and sorrow, none are braver and less complaining sufferers than women.

Their courage, where their hearts are concerned, is indeed proverbial: "Oh! femmes c'est a tort qu'on vous nommes timides, A la voix de vos coeurs vous etes intrepides." Experience has proved that women can be as enduring as men, under the heaviest trials and calamities; but too little pains are taken to teach them to endure petty terrors and frivolous vexations with fortitude.
Such little miseries, if petted and indulged, quickly run into sickly sensibility, and become the bane of their life, keeping themselves and those about them in a state of chronic discomfort.
The best corrective of this condition of mind is wholesome moral and mental discipline.

Mental strength is as necessary for the development of woman's character as of man's.

It gives her capacity to deal with the affairs of life, and presence of mind, which enable her to act with vigour and effect in moments of emergency.