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That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.