No one will travel so badly as not daily to make some degree of progress. This, therefore, let us never cease to do, that we may daily advance in the righteous way; and let us not despair because of the slender measure of success. How little soever the success may correspond with our wish, our labor is not lost when to-day is better than yesterday, provided with true singleness of mind we keep our aim, and aspire to the goal, not speaking flattering things to ourselves, nor indulging our vices, but making it our constant endeavor to become better, until we attain to goodness itself.