Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Ambrose BierceThe speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.
Ambrose BierceAn auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
Ambrose Bierce