An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.
Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.
The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.