There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know can any work be humble...
On a soap happiness never lasts for very long!
No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
