Dignity is an anachronism.
That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.
It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard.
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.