There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral lows, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness. |
There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania |
We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh |
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! |