—To many that are more unknown to each other than man and woman:⁠—and who hath fully understood how unknown to each other are man and woman!

Voluptuousness:⁠—but I will have hedges around my thoughts, and even around my words, lest swine and libertine should break into my gardens!⁠—

Passion for power: the glowing scourge of the hardest of the heart-hard; the cruel torture reserved for the cruellest themselves; the gloomy flame of living pyres.

Passion for power: the wicked gadfly which is mounted on the vainest peoples; the scorner of all uncertain virtue; which rideth on every horse and on every pride.

Passion for power: the earthquake which breaketh and upbreaketh all that is rotten and hollow; the rolling, rumbling, punitive demolisher of whited sepulchres; the flashing interrogative-sign beside premature answers.