<p>The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil$$$ but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.</p>

<p>I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.</p>

<p>Two commanders on the same field are always one too many.</p>

<p>The darkest day of my life was the day I heard of Lincoln's assassination. I did not know what it meant. Here was the rebellion put down in the field$$$ and starting up in the gutters...</p>

<p>Not even the human imagination satisfies the endless emptiness of the soul.</p>

<p>Well$$$ while I'm here. I'll do the work. And what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else$$$ drunken dumbshow.</p>

<p>One wants to tell a story$$$ like Scheherezade$$$ in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.</p>

<p>Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't$$$ and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.</p>

<p>In this world nothing can be said to be certain$$$ except death and taxes.</p>

<p>Too late... everything's always too late.</p>