Thus, we may educate ourselves in a happy disposition, as well as in a morbid one.

Indeed, the habit of viewing things cheerfully, and of thinking about life hopefully, may be made to grow up in us like any other habit.

[152] It was not an exaggerated estimate of Dr.Johnson to say, that the habit of looking at the best side of any event is worth far more than a thousand pounds a year.
The religious man's life is pervaded by rigid self-discipline and self-restraint.

He is to be sober and vigilant, to eschew evil and do good, to walk in the spirit, to be obedient unto death, to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand; to wrestle against spiritual wickedness, and against the rulers of the darkness of this world; to be rooted and built up in faith, and not to be weary of well-doing; for in due season he shall reap, if he faint not.
The man of business also must needs be subject to strict rule and system.

Business, like life, is managed by moral leverage; success in both depending in no small degree upon that regulation of temper and careful self-discipline, which give a wise man not only a command over himself, but over others.