Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man. If God, then, puts or permits anything hard in our lives, be sure that the real peril, the real trouble, is that we shall lose if we flinch or rebel. Courage an independant spark from heaven's bright throne, by which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone. One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Wounds inflicted by a sharp knife, heal more quickly than wounds inflicted by a sharp tongue.
If not, let it be left unsaid. I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. Life is a lesson in humility. False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us when we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.