It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
Gratitude is a species of justice.
Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.
That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.