The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.