The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell fo…

- James Branch Cabell

Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

- James Branch Cabell

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

- James Branch Cabell

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

- James Branch Cabell

Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happening…

- James Branch Cabell

There is no gift more great than love.

- James Branch Cabell

Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.

- James Branch Cabell

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three …

- James Branch Cabell

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

- James Branch Cabell