Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.
