The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.