No child should ever be too sad to play.

The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place")

I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and just as complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.

There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.