“The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.”

“A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.”

“Got it memorized?”

“Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?”

“The beast in meIs caged by frail and fragile bars.”

“In this cage, behind these bars, I think of you and me.”

“Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men.”