Life Triumphant

The perfect life is not the far away, impossible thing that men who are in darkness imagine it to be; it is supremely possible, and very near and real. Man remains a craving, weeping, sinning, repenting creature just so long as he wills to do so by clinging to those weak conditions; but when he wills to shake off his dark dreams and to rise, he arises and achieves. Contents: faith and courage; manliness and sincerity; energy and power; self control and happiness; simplicity and freedom; right thinking and repose; calmness and resource; insight and nobility; man the master; knowledge and victory.