Robert Browning Quote

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Optimist: A proponent of the doctrine that black is white

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains, my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable