It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.

Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.

The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.

I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were not fulfilled would abandon them for the future; but on the contrary they grow even stronger just as the love of gambling increases in a man who has once lost in a lottery.