“There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker.”

“In life there are certain sores that, like a canker, gnaw at the soul in solitude and diminish it.”

“If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.”

“Tender," she said again. "Tender is kind and gentle. It's also sore, like the skin around an injury.”

“...but he felt the relief of being alone as well...the forgotten solitude which measures and verifies the strength of an affair, and which, being temporary, is a kind of pleasure.”

“‎"The incapacity of sound sleep denotes a mind sorely wounded.”