For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.