Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
You say, ‘If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.’ You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.
Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.