No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.
To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.
Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.
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.