Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator most probably from a life to misery and misfortune and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Fortune which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.