“Our veiled and terrible guest (trouble) brings for us, if we accept it, the boon of fortitude, patience, self-control, wisdom, sympathy, faith. If we reject that, then we find in our hands the other gift, - cowardice, weakness, isolation, despair. If your trouble seems to have in it no other possibility of good, at least set yourself to bear it like a man. Let none of its weight come on other shoulders. Try to carry it so that no one shall even see it. Though your heart be sad within, let cheer go out from you to others. Meet them with a kindly presence, considerate words, helpful acts.”
G. S. MERRIAM
“I think that the retrospect of sorrow is, with most persons, not very sorrowful. They see that sorrow is the great chastener.”
Sir A. HELPS
“Sorrow seems sent for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we would teach them to sing.”
RICHTER
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