The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy ... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.