A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Every day, I genuinely count my blessings. One of the greatest things in life is to do a job you really enjoy.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer

In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.

Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.