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Men can help fortune along, but they cannot resist it; they can swim with the tide, but they can never made headway against it. Of course, they should never give up, for they can never know what fortune has in mind. So there is always a reason to hope, and if one has hope one will never give up, no matter how hostile fortune may be, no matter how dreadful the situation in which one finds oneself
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