At last, however, he began to think — as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ough… - Charles Dickens

it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.