“There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.”

“Having achieved what I thought was an ultimate ambition, I found, as I think is often the case, that there remained something more.”

“I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.”

“There are times when thinking about something is the worst possible policy.”

“More and more I had come to see the Capped as lacking what seemed to me the essence of humanity, the vital spark of defiance against the rulers of the world.”

“Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.”

“I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the days that came after. Pleasant, but alas, impossible. That which had brought us together had gone, and now our paths diverged, according to our natures and needs. We would meet again, from time to time, but always a little more as strangers; until perhaps at last, as old men with only memories left, we could sit together and try to share them.”