“I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.”
More from Martha Washington
“A dependence is, I think, a wretched state and you have enough if you will manage it…”
“Look upon this advice in the friendly way it is meant, as I wish you to be a independent…”
“There are few people who can manage more than their own business.”
“The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be…”