It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

Pray do not interrupt me," he wrote. "I am smiling.

He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.

Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?

To be able to forget means sanity.

I would rather be ashes than dust.