Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

There are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are those whom it has summoned amid scenes of revelry and idle vanity; there are those, too, who have heard its "still small voice" amid rural leisure and placid retirement. But perhaps the knowledge which causeth not to err is most frequently impressed upon the mind during the season of affliction.

Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.

The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.