We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feeling was very strong upon me that night. Here was another side to my dream.