If you want a man to keep his head when the crisis comes, you must give him some training before it comes. This was the aim of the men who once every month pretended they were poor.

While fortune is bestowing favors, then is the time to be strengthened against her rebuffs.

Set aside now and then a number of days during which you will be content with the plainest of food, and very little of it, and with rough, coarse clothing. Ask yourself , 'Is this what one used to dread?'.