It seems that in this world we never can be content . . . we only think that we should be if things were otherwise than they are. - H. Rider Haggard

Then the irony of the situation forced itself upon me. There around us lay treasures enough to pay off a moderate national debt, or to build a fleet of ironclads, and yet we would have bartered them all gladly for the faintest chance of escape. Soon, doubtless, we should be rejoiced to exchange them for a bit of food or a cup of water, and, after that, even for the privilege of a speedy close to our sufferings. Truly wealth, which men spend their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.

. . . all men are cowards . . . in one matter or another, though in the rest they may be brave enough.

I do not believe in violence; it is the last resort of fools.