Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
[Lat., Calamitas virtutis occasio est.]

Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
[Lat., Calamitas virtutis occasio est.]

It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness

It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness

We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.

We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that read more

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

Misfortune tests friends, and detects enemies

Misfortune tests friends, and detects enemies

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Calamity is man's true touch-stone.
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,

Calamity is man's true touch-stone.
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,

I was a stricken deer that left the herd
Long since.

I was a stricken deer that left the herd
Long since.

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire read more

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it