The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell for leather, and the machinist sees three idiots sitting on the rail track. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true."

What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple, generous living we approach perfection in the highest and most lovely of all arts. . . . But you, I think, have always comprehended this.

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.

I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.

Thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.