The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. (James Branch Cabell)

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. (Ambrose Bierce)

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. (H. G. Wells)

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. (Edward George Bulwer-Lytton)