“It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.”

“We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.”

“Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth”

“It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.”

“This is the testimony of all the good books, sermons, hymns, and memoirs I read--that God's ways are infinitely perfect; that we are to love Him for what He is and therefore equally as much when He afflicts as when He prospers us; that there is no real happiness but in doing and suffering His will; and that this life is but a scene of probation through which we pass to the real life above.”

“Gratitude and love are always multiplied when you give freely. It is an infinite source of contentment and prosperous energy.”