I acquiesced in this on the grounds that the most anyone can expect from a holiday is a change of agony.

I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years…

As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, 'they can't leave anything alone.'

To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, th…

You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor soul…

These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.