Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums... All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me... Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born.

Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

As for the primitive, I hark back to it because we are still very primitive. How many thousands of years of culture, think you, have rubbed and polished at our raw edges? One probably; at the best, no more than two. And that takes us back to screaming savagery, when, gross of body and deed, we drank blood from the skulls of our enemies, and hailed as highest paradise the orgies and carnage of Valhalla.

There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.