He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.

But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!

With his long sharp nails he opened a vein in his breast. When the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one of his, holding them tight and with the other ceased my neck and pressed my mouth to the wound so that I must either suffocate or swallow... Some of the...Oh my god…my god What have I done?

I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.