“I am the keeper of the beast, though all men harbor a beast in the depths of their heart -- callous, calamitous creatures, driven by deviant demands and derisive diligence. -- From the short story What Rough Beast”
“Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.”
“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?”
“So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.”
“A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category — gentlemen masquerading as beasts?”
“Guardians were made from the beasts that rule their souls, forced to share a human body so they would be servants to the Keepers.”