C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Disaster
Disasters teach us humility.
St. Anselm.
Defeat may be victory in disguise.
Longfellow.
The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.
Emerson.
It is in periods of apparent disaster, during the sufferings of whole generations, that the greatest improvement in human character has been effected.
Sir A. Alison.
When the foot of the mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
Auerbach.