Quietly she said: “I know I’m not insane.” So, Barbee understood, did all lunatics. - Jack Williamson

Conquerors live by conquest; the first failure is a signal for the conquered to rise against them.

The difficulties were great, the odds were greater, but Horn would conquer them. And, having conquered them, be left unsatisfied.
Life holds no kindness for such a man. Any defeat short of death is only a spur; success is empty.
With cold self-analysis, Horn recognized this fact, accepted it, and went on unchanged.

He was a strong man in wise enough to realize that beyond power itself is the power of using it wisely.