Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat

I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse.

From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.