It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.
I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.