Misery

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity

A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs

It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy

It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him consider.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.