Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out -it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

I think there is this about the great troubles. They teach us the art of cheerfulness; whereas the small ones cultivate the industry of discontent.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.

There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's own.

When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests.

From troubles of the world I turn to ducks, beautiful comical things.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a good many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

A youth was questioning a lonely old man, 'What is life's heaviest burden?' he asked. The old fellow answered sadly, 'To have nothing to carry.'