Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
'And yet,' demanded Councilor Barlow, 'what's he done Has he ever done a day's work in his life What great cause is he identified with' 'He's identified,' said the first speaker, 'with the great cause of cheering us all up.'
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
The price of justice is eternal publicity.
