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“Can a man who’s warm understand one who’s freezing?”
Can a man who’s warm understand one who’s freezing?
You lose the power of speech. You haven’t the slightest desire to talk to each other.
A convict’s thoughts are no freer than he is: they come back to the same place, worry over the same thing continually.
Who is the convict’s worst enemy? Another convict.
The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.
prayers are like petitions—either they don’t get through at all, or else it’s ‘complaint rejected.’”
