“Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.”

“Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness is the foe of volatility. Oft times insults that would pierce the wakeful simply thud against the sleepless and fatigued.”

“Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.”

“I am Cnaiur urs Skiötha, breaker-of-horses-and-men!","I am Cnaiür urs Skiötha, most violent of all men! I bear your fathers and brothers upon my arms!”

“History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.”

“We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies. The best way to secure one's own deception is to accuse others of deceit.”

“Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.”