“In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.”
“When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.”
“everybody is a gambler who chooses a life among many other alternatives”
“A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.”
“The expenses of government, having for their object the interests of all, should be borne by every one, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself honoured in contributing to these expenses.”
“There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act.”