No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses. - Herman Melville

I felt a melting in me. No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world.

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused. The privilege, inborn and inalienable, that every man has of dying himself, and inflicting death upon another, was not given to us without a purpose. These are the last resources of an insulted and unendurable existence.

At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before