In any adversity gold can find friends.
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
We generally get the evil we expect.
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.