Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end; and it is no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity. Emerson.
Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions—money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion—should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labour. Erasmus.
Providence has given to the French the empire 5 of the land; to the English, that of the sea; to the Germans, that of—the air. Mme. de Staël.
Providence is but another name for natural law. Ward Beecher.
Providence is my next-door neighbour. An Italian hermit.
Providence is not counteracted by any means which Providence puts into our power. Johnson.
Providence may change, but the promise must stand. Pr.
Providence often puts a large potato in a little 10 pig's way. Pr.
Providence provides for the provident. Pr.
Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence. Sir P. Sidney.