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. - Stephen Crane

A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree.

She performed nearly all the house-work in exchange for the privilege of existence.

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

He suddenly lost concern for himself, and forgot to look at a menacing fate. He became not a man but a member. He felt that something of which he was a part — a regiment, an army, a cause, or a country — was in a crisis. He was welded into a common personality which was dominated by a single desire. For some moments he could not flee no more than a little finger can commit a revolution from a hand.