All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!

Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own

Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.

Mankind is unamendable.

What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

All chance, direction, which thou canst not see