Law is born from despair of human nature.
The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.