Men can bear all things but good days.
A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.
I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.
For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.