Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father

You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels loved by all men for the beauty of their character.

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

The excess of all good things is mischievous.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.

Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals!

You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.

How can you expect a man to be brave when he meets with nothing in life but misfortune?

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.