“Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.”
“Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.”
“It is our duty to improve upon every blessing the Lord gives to us.”
“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
“It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the struggles, the miseries, the laughter, the tears - and yet keep your mind very simple; and you can have a simple mind only when you know how to love.”
“We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.”