The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

No man ought to look a given horse in the mouth. The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

A wise man should not reveal his loss of wealth, the vexation of his mind, the misconduct of his own wife, base words spoken by others, and disgrace that has befallen him.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

By this time Vanderbilt had achieved a great reputation as a man who created values, earned dividends, and invented wealth as if by magic; other railroad managers now began... ask him to do with them what he had done with the Harlem and the Hudson River.