Family life itself that safest most traditional most approved of female choices is not a sanctuary: It is perpetually a dangerous place.

Even in a gleefully negative comic there is optimism although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope a form of optimism. Really hokey I know but it's true.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain its impressions are certain and dependable they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

What some call health if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet isn't much better than tedious disease.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power after power that ceaseth only in death.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Art is beauty the perpetual invention of detail the choice of words the exquisite care of execution.