it is much better to have a few faults and be cheerful and responsive in spite of all deprivations than to retire into one's shell, pet one's affliction, clothe it with sanctity, and then set one's self up as a monument of patience, virtue, goodness and all in all
there are a few bitter drops in every one's cup, and the only way is to take the bitter patiently, and the sweet thankfully
no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.