Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for.
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.
One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it appear that people who harmed me were interfering with an important experiment.
Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.
De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive powers generated by this same impulse.