Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we
should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have
recourse to human consolation.--_Thomas a Kempis._
Adversity, like winter weather, is of use to kill those vermin which the
summer of prosperity is apt to produce and nourish.--_Arrowsmith._
Adversity, how blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with
those of Guilt!--_Blair._
~Advice.~--People are sooner reclaimed by the side wind of a surprise than
by downright admonition.--_L'Estrange._