They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.

This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I act under orders.

Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures.

Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.