A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.