'What's he done? Has he ever done a day's work in his life ? what great cause is he identified with ? 'He's identified ... with the great cause of cheering us all up.'

Pessimism, when you get used to it,
is just as agreeable as optimism.
Indeed, I think it must be more
agreeable, must have a more real savour,
than optimism --- from the way in which 
pessimists abandon themselves to it...