Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.