How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.

How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.

Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.

Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.