“Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.”

“Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.”

“I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me.”

“But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.”

“The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.”

“The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.”

“If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.”