It is not the place, not the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable. Happiness isn't something you experience, it's something you remember. It's not what you are, but what you don't become that hurts. There is nothing so practical as a good theory. Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate.
Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available. First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. Thus while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious reason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish. To move freely you must be deeply rooted.