It Is Easier To Die Bravely Than

No Work Deserves To Be Criticized That Has Not Much In It That Deserves To Be Applauded.

The Knowledge Beyond All Other Knowledge Is The Knowledge How To Excuse.

God, We Are Told, Looked Upon The World After He Had Created It And Pronounced It Good; But Ascetic Pietists, In Their Wisdom, Cast Their Eyes Over It, And Substantially Pronounce It A Dead Failure, A Miserable Production, A Poor Concern.

I Desire To Go Through Life Knowing As Little Of Evil In It As Possible. To This End, I Sometimes Avoid Looking Too Closely Into The Nature Of Things, Studying Them Only So Far As They Seem To Be Good, And Abandoning Interest In Them As Soon As Their Darker Feature Begin To Appear. The Good Only Deserves A Hearty Interest.

Melancholy Sees The Worst Of Things...[rather Than The Best]