A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children . . . the blindness of the unpitiful - these were my terrors. But not the crash of thunder overhead, not the bolts of fire from the clouds.

I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.

So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.

Happiness is a hardy annual.