“We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.”
“Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge”
“I must have you, completely, at my table and in my bed, or I shall waste away like a starving prisoner. There you have it; forgive the lack of poesy.”
“No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.”
“Our taste must always be, more or less, the victim of our limitations, but we should beware of glorying in it, and, above all, we should beware of mistaking the aversions of timidity and sensibility for critical judgments.”
“Beware: It is a quick transition from a nourishing sense of gratitude to a poisonous sense of entitlement.”