“No one was above the law, and no one was below its protection.”

“No man is above the law, and no man is below it.”

“That which is below is like that which is above, and that which is above is like that which is below, to perform the miracles of one only thing.”

“The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.”

“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.”

“When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it. The highest type of man may revert to the animal if he leaves the straight road of destiny.”