Pessimism does win us great happy moments.
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Nobody ever died of laughter.