If the roof caves in and the tenants are sitting in the debris, they will laugh like hell. They will endure any hardship as long as it means trouble for the landlord.

For more than fifty years, the Western world has haunted itself with rumors of its own death.

Greater dooms win greater destinies.

If the Chrysler crisis had come up during a Republican administration, the company would have gone down the tubes before you could say Herbert Hoover.

If a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willingly avoids the sight of distress.

The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.