from A Moveable Feast

“The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”“The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.”― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast 

(Both quotations are from Chapter 5, "A False Spring"; I'm rereading the book as edited in The Restored Edition.)