““...such it is with all human sensations that people become gradually used to everything and this is truly a beneficial gift from nature, because how otherwise would our physique be able to withstand the vicissitudes of life? The experience [with seasickness] has convinced me often that I, with the least prior knowledge of what I would have considered insurmountable, and when I truly was in those feared circumstances, learned the feeling of unavoidability which often helped me to meet the storms of life calmly. From this, we can learn that we must not give up courage, when our feet sometimes tread on more thorns than flowers, but when with manly steadfastness we hope for a better future, Providence often gives us the power to bear our cross.””
