All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.