Who said “Optimism is the opium of the people.”?

“My sun sets to rise again.”

“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.”

“One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”

“I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.”

“Optimist, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.”

“Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.”

“The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.”

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”

“I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.”

“Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.”

“Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.”