On the return journey it is the same thing reversed.' "'Why not live in Ludgate Circus,' I said, 'and be always as you are now ?' "'Because,' he answered, 'man is a pendulum, and must travel his arc.' "'My dear Mac,' said he, laying his hand upon my shoulder, 'there is only one good thing about me, and that is a moral.

Man is as God made him: don't be so sure that you can take him to pieces and improve him.

All my life I have sought to make myself an unnaturally superior person.

Nature has retaliated by making me also an unnaturally inferior person.

Nature abhors lopsidedness.