However mean your life is,meet it and live it ;do not shun it and call it hardnames.It is not
so bad as you suppose.It looks poorest when you are richest.The fault-finder will find faults
in paradise.Love your life,
poor as it is.You may perhaps have some pleasant,thrilling,glorious hourss,even in a poor-house.
The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich
man's abode;the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.
I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there,and have as cheering thoughts,as
in a palace.The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.May be
they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things,whether clothes or friends,Turn the old,return
to them.Things do not change;we change.Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.