Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies—it is the first law of nature.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

Keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.