Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.