Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
keep looking around me — only much more so —observing — but not only myself but others and everything — take things (it) for what they (it’s) are worth
“Stay glad. Keep hoping machine running. Love everybody. Make up your mind.”
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.”