Recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year. Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Bio: Robert Gilbert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart known as Sir Robert Vansittart between 1929 and 1941, was a senior British diplomat in the period before and during the Second World War.