Jolly Punches In The Side

As for small difficulties and worryings, prospects of sudden disaster, peril of life and limb, all these, and death itself, seem to him only sly, good-natured hits, and jolly punches in the side bestowed by an unseen and unaccountable old joker. There is nothing like the perils of the wilderness to breed this free and easy sort of genial, desperado philosophy.
--Herman Melville