Suffering is Unavoidable.――Where to Look for Consolation.――Two Consoling Reflections.――Advantage of a Multitude of Miseries.――The Habit of Unhappiness.――Some Require Ill Fortune.――Two Popular Methods of Consolation.――Talk It Over, and Why.――Our Strange Claim for Happiness.――The Tolerance of Suffering.――The Universal Panacea.――Look Before and After.――Deal Justly by Yourself.――How to Regard Incivility and Ingratitude.――Success Arising from Failures.――Resignation, Sympathy.――Remember Your Advantages.――Thoughts About Time and Death. STROWINGS, pp. 248-280 II. _The Inseparable Connection of Pleasure and Pain._ Pleasure Requires Pain, and Joy Sorrow.――The Words of Socrates.――Physiological Relations of Pleasure and Pain.――Their Analogy to Joy and Sorrow.――The Oneness of the Pleasure-Pain Sensation.――The Rhythm of Sensations and Emotions.――Pleasure Derived from Pain, Joy from Sorrow.――Quotation from Leigh Hunt.――Quotation from Sir Richard Steele.――Sadness the Best Preparative for Gladness.――Influence of Time on Pleasures and Pains. STROWINGS, pp. 263-272 III. _The Education of Suffering._ What is Suffering?――The Human Passion of Sorrow.――Sorrow as the Initiation into the Mysteries of Life.――The Noblest Prizes Won Only by Suffering.――It is the Highest Inspiration of Religion and Art.――It Alone Teaches the Elder Truths.――The Ministry of Grief.――The Sweetness of Departed Joys.――The Compensations of Loves that are Lost.――The Despair that is Divine. STROWINGS, pp. 273-280 PART I. Happiness as the Aim of Life. I. _Is a Guide to Happiness Possible? And, if Possible, is it Desirable?_ The pursuit of happiness,――the pursuit of one’s own happiness,――is it a vain quest? and, if not vain, is it a worthy object of life? There have been plenty to condemn it on both grounds. They have said that the endeavor is hopeless; that to study the art of being happy is like studying the art of making gold, which is the only art by which gold can never be made. Nothing, they add, is so unpropitious to happiness as the very effort to attain it. They go farther. “Let life,” they proclaim, “have a larger purpose than enjoyment.” They quote the mighty Plato, when he demands that the right aim of living shall stand apart, and out of all relation to pleasure or pain. They declare that the theory of happiness as an end is the most dangerous of all in modern sociology――the tap-root of the worst weeds in the political theories of the day, for the reason that the individual pursuit of enjoyment is necessarily destructive of that of society at large. Moreover, they urge, who dares write of it? For he who has not enjoyed it, cannot speak wisely of it; and in him who has attained it, ’twere insolence to boast of it.