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"providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it." »Mark Twain
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"Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, providence, - what are they?" »Author Unknown
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"The true recipe for a miserable existence is to quarrel with providence." »James Waddell Alexander, II
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"A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles." »B. B. Warfield
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"Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a providence to an humble and grateful mind." »Epictetus
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"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind." »Jonathan Swift
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"providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them." »Anne-Sophie Swetchine
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"A special providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America." »Otto von Bismarck
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"Shall ignorance of good and ill
Dare to direct the eternal will?
Seek virtue, and of that possest,
To providence resign the rest." »Gay
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"Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in providence is its best preventive and remedy." »Tyron Edwards
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"For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever-present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence." »George Barrell Cheever
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"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth." »John Adams
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"It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying that every man by his folly or wisdom prepares good or evil for himself. But we may view it in another light, namely, that we may so accommodate ourselves to the dispositions of providence as to be happy in our lot, whatever may be its privations." »Von Humboldt
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"There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo-Americans...Each seems called by some secret design of providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world." »Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America 1835
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"providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success." »T. T. Munger
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"If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born; it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences." »Eugene Edwards
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"There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it." »Samuel Johnson
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"Man is supreme lord and master Of his own ruin and disaster, Controls his fate, but nothing less In ordering his own happiness: For all his care and providence Is too feeble a defence To render it secure and certain Against the injuries of Fortune; And oft, in spite of all his wit, Is lost by one unlucky hit, And ruined with a circumstance, And mere punctilio of a chance." »Butler
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