Nature, who has appointed no greater joy for us than the exercise of the capacities she has given us, has also no heavier, bitterer burden she can lay upon us than these capacities barred down in us unemployed.
"To-morrow?"
Victoria Cross
A scoffer, who knew her thoughts, might have said to her: Not the intoxication of wine alone makes a man talk to himself, and changes his view of everything; and, worse still, the recovery from an over-indulgence in exciting thought is, perhaps, even bitterer.
"Landolin"
Berthold Auerbach
Something bitterer and crueller than the money had taken the memory of that away.
"A Son of the Hills"
Harriet T. Comstock