In spite of Death, the mark and seal of the parental control, Man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine, to criticise, to know, and in imagination to create. To him alone, in the world with which he is acquainted, this freedom belongs; and in this lies his superiority to the resistless forces that control his outward life.

I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ?

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.

We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.

Organized people are just too lazy to look for things

It's coexistence or no existence.

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.