“Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.”
“Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that ain't natural.”
“There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.”
“Nothing dries more quickly than a tear.”
“Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.”
“A man is never such an egotist as at moments of spiritual ecstasy. At such times it seems to him that there is nothing on earth more splendid and interesting than himself.”