In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.