“We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.”

The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.

You’re trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.

It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don’t respect you and when they respect you they don’t love you.

A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don’t have a lot of difficulty.