“To retrieve the ill consequences of a foolish conduct, and by struggling manfully with distress to subdue it, is one of the noblest efforts of wisdom and virtue. Whoever, therefore, calls such a man fortunate, is guilty of no less impropriety in speech than he would be who should call the statuary or the poet fortunate who carved a Venus or who writ an Iliad.” FortuneOvercoming AdversityOvercoming QuotesMisfortuneFortune QuotesMisfortune QuotesFortune Favors The BoldFortune Favors The Privileged Author:Henry Fielding