Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society
The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.
The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.
The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.