Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.

I have never had much trouble simultaneously entertaining diametrically opposed propositions, and welcome the possibility that this is not because I have one mind and am out of it, but because I have lots of them, all beavering away on their own.

when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.