“No one is useless in this world, who lightens the burden of it for any one else.”
“Struggle strengthens the human bond and lightens the burden of the human condition.”
“The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.”
“If in this world there is one misery having no relief, it is the pressure on the heart from the Incommunicable. And if another Sphinx should arise to propose another enigma to man–saying, what burden is that which only is insupportable by human fortitude? I should answer at once: It is the burden of the Incommunicable”
“Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can. ”