“Industry is the enemy of melancholy”
“I wondered if this wasn't a case of making the ideal an enemy of the good, but Salatin was convinced that industrial organic was finally a contradiction in terms. I decided I had to find out if he was right.”
“Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.”
“Melancholy isn’t a sign of the book’s end; it is its inspiration. Melancholy is reading’s muse.”
“In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.”
“There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.”