In latter years I have remembered what an old man often told me when a boy.
"Chauncey," he says, "don't you know there are a thousand troubles and difficulties ?" I told him I did not know there were; "well," he says, "you will find out if you live long enough." I have lived long enough to see ten thousand troubles, and have found out that the saying of the old man is true.

I have narrated but a small part of my business troubless [sic] in this brief history.

One of the most trying things to me now, is to see how I am looked upon by the community since I lost my property.

I never was any better when I owned it than I am now, and never behaved any better.

But how different is the feeling towards you, when your neighbors can make nothing more out of you, politically or pecuniarily.
It makes no difference what, or how much you have done for them heretofore, you are passed by without notice now.