As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour. 719
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. 1.05K
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. 844