The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled
Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
... most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't one? And there are people I know who would certainly grumble -- however dead they were -- if there were anything to grumble at.