Sweetness of life depends to its bitterness.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.

Indolence, thoroughly languid though it be, very seldom fails to be master; it interferes with all our plans and actions, and gradually wears down and destroys our passions and our virtues.

Full of a sweet indifference.

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor ...

It often happens, that the sweeter the first fruit of a habit is, the more bitter are the consequences.

Revenge is sweet but not nourishing.

Wherever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure: a larger heart, and a greater self-restraint, would put a calm autumnal sadness in the place of the instinctive outcry of pain.

Futile bitterness, idle melancholy, empty regrets.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labour;

It is a sweet, albeit most painful, feeling
To know we are regretted.