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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

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

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.