“Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.”
“…just as determined belief yields no ground to the most irresistible powers and strategies, so too determined unbelief.”
“People believe a little too easily that the function of the sun is to help the cabbages along.”
“November and the sun grows sparse in the sky.”
“It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.”
“People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.”