A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

Some suggestions for you :

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Ask not what tomorrow may bring, but count as blessing every day that fate allows you.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

Every old poem is sacred.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

You may drive nature out with a pitchfork she will nevertheless come back.

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.