Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

... a hundred fools together will not make one wise man.

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

No individual life can be truly prosperous, passed . . . in the midst of men who suffer.

One is too small a number to achieve greatness.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

So few are the easy victories as the ultimate failures.

Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.

posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.