The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. – James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! – Agnes Repplier
I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration. – Robert Burns
