What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.