Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. Man's Search For Meaning

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. Mark Twain's Notebook

We live as it were by chance, and by chance we are governed. Seneca's Morals

One could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles between the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension. For how could one express in words these emotions of the body? express that emptiness there? To the Lighthouse