We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane.It never is, sir.Lane, you're a perfect pessimist.I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.

ALGERNON.I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane.LANE.It never is, sir.

I am not a Pessimist. Indeed I am not sure that I quite know what Pessimism really means. All I do know is that life cannot be understood without much charity, it cannot be lived without much charity. It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of this world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it