The best thing to do right now is to:

• get yourself a cookie
• proceed antisystematically and aphoristically, or lyrically, or musically
• keep together
• turn to page 8 and get an idea
• lay low for a bit and let the heat die down
• hold the nerves in, keep cool and let the fish take the line for a run
• bite the bullet and show up
• rest for a little bit
• keep quiet
• get away from the monkeys
• sit down, relax, have some lunch
• go for a swim
• build a fort
• give these people a chance
• get out there as quickly as possible
• just watch what he does
• learn how to cope on your own

[Tidbits gathered through the course of our research.  See the remarkable collection, entitled Bullet Lists.]

If we are to "remember not past years," we are left to remember the future.  We find this good advice in Lead, Kindly Light by John Henry Newman and illustrated by Frank Dadd, 1887.

"Don't talk about boiled mutton" — some invaluable advice from The Adventures of Mr. Ledbury and His Friend Jack Johnson by Albert Richard Smith and illustrated by John Leech, 1886.

William Keckler offers "Somewhat Belated Advice for Marie Antoinette":

Don't dress or coif onself
too much like a turkey
amidst millions
of starving French peasants,
as one might just
get treated like one.

We would add: When plastering the walls with jewels, substitute cut glass for diamonds.  You'll get tons of sparkle as you help to ease the deterioration of the financial situation in France.