John Burroughs Quote

Optimist: A proponent of the doctrine that black is white

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict

If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.

The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

Optimism: The doctrine or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete