Do you wonder that they will.

I recognize myself for part of this mad world, I suppose. You wouldn’t have me take it seriously? I should lose my reason utterly if I did;.

It does not make me ridiculous simply to be less foul than those about me.

Evidently not. They are just governing.

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

It is a futile and ridiculous struggle – but then... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

When all is said, a man’s final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself.

If Mr. Blood had condescended to debate the matter with these ladies, he might have urged that having had his fill of wandering and adventuring, he was now embarked upon the career for which he had been originally intended and for which his studies had equipped him; that he was a man of medicine and not of war; a healer, not a slayer.

He was recovering his normal self amazingly under the inspiring stimulus of conflict.

The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise the inferior mass to a superior stratum, apostles of equality must ever be inferiors seeking to reduce their betters to their level. It follows that a nation that once admits this doctrine of equality will be dragged by it to the level, moral, intelletual and political, of its most worthless class.