The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means preoccupation; and the preoccupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active, which is pleasanter than any happiness until you are tired of it. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired. To people who are not overworked, holidays are a nuisance. A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
—George Bernard Shaw, "Parents and Children," preface to "Misalliance."
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