The path of least resistance is the path of the loser - H. G. Wells

He showed it to me with all the confiding zest of a man who has been living too much alone. This seclusion was overflowing now in an excess of confidence, and I had the good luck to be the recipient.

[The invisible man said: ]"After a time I crawled home, took some food and a strong dose of strychnine, and went to sleep in my clothes on my unmade bed. Strychnine is a grand tonic, Kemp, to take the flabbiness out of a man."
----"It's the devil," said Kemp. "It's the palaeolithic in a bottle."
--"I awoke vastly invigorated and rather irritable. You know?"
----"I know the stuff."

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.