“Happiness is often only a pity for one's own misfortune.”
“Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.”
“It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.”
“Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.”
“Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.”
“There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.”