I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world
What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?
...fact takes no heed of human hopes.
Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.
Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.
The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.