Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

—Josh Billings

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

—Josh Billings

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

—Josh Billings

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

—Josh Billings

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

—Josh Billings

Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.

—Unknown

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

—William Shakespeare

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain.

—William Shakespeare

A man I am cross'd with adversity.

—William Shakespeare