“Is search for bread, and meat, and rainment be set aside, then, beyond that, our happiness or misery here depends cheifly on success or failure in small things. Though a man when he turns into bed may be sure that he has unlimited thousands at his command, though all society be open to him, though he know himself to be esteemed handsome, clever, and fasionable, even though his digestion is good, and he has no doctor to deny him tabacco, champagne, or made dishes, still, if he be counscious of failure where he has driven to succeed, even though it be in the humbling of an already humble adversary, he will stretch, and roll, and pine - a wretched being, ”
