Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. - Joseph Conrad

I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.

The use of reason is to justify the obscure desires that move our conduct, impulses, passions, prejudices and follies, and also our fears.

The sight of it made the earth seem unearthly. They were accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there — there you could look at a thing monstrous, beautiful, and free.