Our existence should be intellectual, we should survey with equanimity all pleasures and all pains.

We should never forget that we are freemen, not the slaves of society.

"I possess," said the Stoic, "a treasure which not all the world can rob me of--no one can deprive me of death." We should remember that Nature in her operations aims at the universal, and never spares individuals, but uses them as means for the accomplishment of her ends.

It is, therefore, for us to submit to Destiny, cultivating, as the things necessary to virtue, knowledge, temperance, fortitude, justice.

We must remember that every thing around us is in mutation; decay follows reproduction, and reproduction decay, and that it is useless to repine at death in a world where every thing is dying.