“Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking.”
“It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.”
“but it is a trait in the perversity of human nature to reject the obvious and the ready, for the far-distant and equivocal.”
“Carlisle has a theory...he believes that we all bring something of our strongest human traits with us into the next life, where they are intensified - like our minds, and our senses.”
“It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.”
“There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.”