“Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.”

“Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there."---The Princess of Intuition”

“...his dearest wish was that he could have a quiet life free from his obligations.”

“In the savage horde the most vagabond, as well as in the most civilized nations of Europe, man is only what he is made to be by external circumstances; he is necessarily elevated by his equals; he contracts from them his habits and his wants; his ideas are no longer his own; he enjoys, from the enviable prerogative of his species, a capacity of developing his understanding bu the power of initiation, and the influence of society.”

“When he talked his eyes went away from mine and then he forced himself to look straight at me and he began to explain and I knew that he felt very strange with me and that he hated me, and it was funny sitting there and talking like that, knowing he hated me.”

“Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.”

“A man never describes his own character so clearly as when he describes another.”