There is no pathos in real misery, no luxury in real grief. - Jerome K. Jerome

There is this advantage about German beer: it does not make a man drunk as the word drunk is understood in England. There is nothing objectionable about him; he is simply tired. He does not want to talk; he wants to be let alone, to go to sleep; it does not matter where — anywhere.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

It seems to be the rule of this world. Each person has what he doesn’t want, and other people have what he does want.