a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.