It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.
A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.
So setting up automatic savings plans, and buying insurance as opposed to buying a new thing. The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.
So learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.
Singapore is the happiest place in Asia
Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space.
From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.
Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.