I had presence of mind; near me was a rock; I stood upon it.

The fiery torrent was vomited out and streamed on either side of me.

And through that long and terrible night I stood there alone upon that rock, the glowing, fiery lava on every hand--a monument of the long-suffering and tender providence of the Lord, who spared me that I might this day testify in your ears of Him.
"Now, my dear friends, let us deduce the lessons that are to be learnt from this narrative.
"Firstly: let us never commit suicide.

The man is a fool, my friends, that man is insane, my friends, who would leave this earth, my friends.
Here are joys innumerable, such as it hath not entered into the heart of man to understand, my friends.

Here are clothes, my friends; here are beds, my friends; here is delicious food, my friends.