Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds.
A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.
In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.
It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.
Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.