In Any Adversity Gold Can Find Friends.

... Good And Evil Are So Interwoven In Life That Every Good, Traced Up Far Enough, Is Found To Involve Evil. This Is The Great Mystery Of Life.

We Generally Get The Evil We Expect.

When We Leave Society And Come Into The Presence Of Nature, We Become Children Again; And The Fictions Of Thought And Action Assumed Among Men Drop Off Like A Garment.

... Though Mathematics May Teach A Man How To Build A Bridge, It Is What The Scotch Universities Call The Humanities, That Teach Him To Be Civil And Sweet-tempered.

Don’t Fail Through Defects Of Temper And Over-sensitiveness At Moments Of Trial. One Of The Great Helps To Success Is To Be Cheerful; To Go To Work With A Full Sense Of Life; To Be Determined To Put Hindrances Out Of The Way; To Prevail Over Them And To Get The Mastery. Above All Things Else, Be Cheerful; There Is No Beatitude For The Despairing.