When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?" He replied: "Because no one admired me.

A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything that he might think to be wrong in the ways of the universe, or even with the ways of society. Let the unfortunates rail; the others may play marbles.

When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples.

A MAN FEARED A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other.

A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.

In the swirling rain that came at dusk the broad avenue glistened with that deep bluish tint which is so widely condemned when it is put into pictures.

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.