Magnificent spectacle of human happiness. - Sydney Smith

Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanilla of society.

If you could be alarmed into the semblance of modesty, you would charm everybody; but remember my joke against you about the Moon and the Solar System;—"Damn the solar system! bad light — planets too distant — pestered with comets — feeble contriviance; — could make a better with great ease."

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.