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."

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

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

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken atwill from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness.

Thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor.

In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.