"No man lives without jostling and being
jostled. In all ways he has to elbow himself
through the world, giving and receiving offence."

Carlyle, "Sir Walter Scott," 1838

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"Job endured everything- until his friends
came to comfort him, then he grew impatient."

Kierkegaard, Journal, 1849



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"A sigh can break a man in two."

The Talmud

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"The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills
me with thoughts which it seems to be the general
care of humanity to escape."

Dr Johnson, B, V, 222.