Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different. - Oscar Wilde

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

For what man has sought for is, indeed, neither pain nor pleasure, but simply Life. Man has sought to live intensely, fully, perfectly. When he can do so without exercising restraint on others, or suffering it ever, and his activities are all pleasurable to him, he will be saner, healthier, more civilised, more himself. Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.