He refuses to challenge his heart, his soul, his principles, and his conscience. He will go anywhere and everywhere but to the right place, and still despair. So the supreme courage of the soul can be manifest only in one who knows himself, at least to a degree. One who has such knowledge is as sure of it as he is that the sun shines, he is so sure of it that it is teeming through his whole nature. It revivifies him, gives him a new conscience and a steadfast courage.
Any man can make the effort to reach that knowledge.
It requires no great strain, no remarkable process of the mind. It is just a calm, quiet confidence in oneself, that one can reach the goal. Then comes the real joy of living. We must admit that we do not meet so many people in the world who carry in their lives or in their faces, or in anything they do or say, much that bespeaks the joy of living. But that is what we should all find, because nature is singing a beautiful song to our souls and our hearts all the time.