There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.