Addicts turn their pleasures into vengeful Gods.
Sleepy-head is no longer aroused by tragic imaginings.
The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.
If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.
A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.
Pleasure usually comes when called, but not happiness.