It is a painful thing To look at your own trouble and know That you yourself and no one else has made it.

One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Adversity in immunological doses has its uses; more than that crushes.

Trouble will come soon enough, and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible. Like the tax-collector, he is a disagreeable chap to have inone's house, but the more amiably you greet him the sooner he will go away

When you are down and out, something always turns up-and it is usually the noses of your friends.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last.

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.

The best way out is always through.