The weak have remedies, the wise have joys superior wisdom is superior bliss.

The line contrasts two ways of meeting life’s troubles. “The weak” look outward for “remedies”—palliatives, distractions, or external fixes—because they lack inner resources. “The wise,” by contrast, possess “joys” that do not depend on circumstance: satisfactions grounded in understanding, self-command, and a steadier view of what matters. The closing claim, “superior wisdom is superior bliss,” asserts that happiness rises with the quality of one’s judgment: the more profound the wisdom, the more durable and elevated the joy. In Young’s moralizing idiom, this is less a celebration of cleverness than of ethical and spiritual insight as the surest foundation for contentment.