“It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.”

“No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.”

“Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.”

“In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”

“Once an ill can be patiently born it is robbed of its poison if not its pain.”

“No man is more cheated than the selfish man.”

“Pride slays thanksgiving ... A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.”