True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our hopes, and the contradictions of life, conducive to some benefit, casts a grave but tranquil light over the prospect of even a toilsome and troubled life.

Thoughts and opinions of a statesman [from F.W. von Humboldt's Briefe an eine Freundin. Transl.]. (ed. 1849)