“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
“I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom. . .To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
“If it’s freedom you seek, then wish nothing and shun nothing that depends on others, or you will always be a helpless slave.”
“You have a power of incalculable value. You need ask nothing of anyone. You need depend on no one. You are free, and that freedom is a gift.”
“Now he had nothing, or he had his freedom. It depended on how he looked at it, he supposed.”
“There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised?”