The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.