I hated the world that wouldn’t let me apply justice without the certain retaliation of injustice.

Man has done his best to ruin the world he lives in.

in order to make himself thoroughly undesirable, he will speak.

He sickened at all triumphs but his own.

He who cuts off his nose takes poor revenge for a shame inflicted on him.

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

.... Above all, he was ashamed of his world, for the world about him had branded his world as bad, inferior. Moreover, he felt no moral strength or compulsion to defend his world. That in him which had always made him self-conscious was now the bud of a new possible life that was pressing ardently but timidly against the shell of the old to shatter it and be free."

He threatened me grievously, and reviled me.

He was so full of disgust, disgust at the world and at himself, that he could not weep.

He was the worst sort of gentry—the sort that mistakes the luck of birth for an actual accomplishment. As if he chose to be born into money and title and had nothing but contempt for those of us lacking the foresight to do the same.

He detested them for forcing helplessness upon him.

Self-pity, he said, is the most demoralizing of all vices.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

His worst crime was that he gave no hope to the young.