Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.

There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it. ... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled.