Complainers rule out happiness, mentioning it only as something lost.

The poor live slow and hard; the rich, fast and easy. The rest of us shuffle along as we may.

Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity.

Thought enables us to see Fate coming.

Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.

I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.

I create my social existence by earning and spending.