Rebels

Rebels, especially successful rebels, are of necessity bad subjects and worse governors. Our ungrateful duty was to rid ourselves of our tried and true allies and replace them with that ninety per cent of the population who had been too solid to rebel - and on whose solidity the new government must rest.

–T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Tears

Poor Archie broke down entirely and, flinging himself into a chair, laid his face on the table, sobbing like a girl. Rose had never seen a man cry before, and it was so unlike a woman's gentler grief that it moved her very much.

—Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom.

Happiness

Principal requisites of earthly happiness which no one can deny according to Tolstoy:
1. Life close to nature - clean air, sunlight, natural sounds, fresh food
2. Physical labor - congenial, free, necessary, giving appetite and sleep
3. Family life - one wife, care of kids
4. Free, friendly communication with men as equals
5. Health and a painless death

—Leo Tolstoy, What I Believe