“Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter.”

“In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.”

“It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch. When as a woman life and people disappoint her, she will have had practice in disappointment and it will not come so hard. In teaching your child do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.”

“Forgetting what it’s like to suffer can be a good thing, since suffering can make people too cutthroat for society’s good. But suffering also breeds certain capacities that are easily lost, such as the ability to focus and a willingness to engage with conflict.”

“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.”

“Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person that never gives to charity.”