“But how much more pleasant was the sensation of being a missile without provenance or target, caught up in a tumult of non-Newtonian motion. So pleasant that pleasant was not the word.”
“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.”
“If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant.”
“It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts.”
“It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.”
“If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.”