The mind is undoubtedly the seat of happiness and misery, and it is
within our power to determine, which shall hold the empire there. To
maintain an uniform conduct, through all the varying stations of
life--to content ourselves with what comes within our reach, without
pining after what we cannot obtain, or envying others what they
possess---to maintain a clear unsullied conscience---and to allow for
the infirmities of others, from a retrospect of our own, are perhaps
some of the best rules we can lay down, in order to banish misery from
this mortal frame, and to acquire such a degree of happiness, as may
enable us to perform our terrestrial journey with some degree of
satisfaction so ourselves and others.
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