In any adversity gold can find friends.

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.

move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.