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

“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”

“If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.”

“Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.”

“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 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.”