‘All that lives moves to get food, and feeds to bring forth young.
‘Love and Hunger—their aim is one; that life should cease not, the life of the individual and the life of others—the same universal life.’
August 1878.
THE EGOIST
He had every qualification for becoming the scourge of his family.
He was born healthy, was born wealthy, and throughout the whole of his long life, continuing to be wealthy and healthy, he never committed a single sin, never fell into a single error, never once made a slip or a blunder.
He was irreproachably conscientious!... And complacent in the sense of his own conscientiousness, he crushed every one with it, his family, his friends and his acquaintances.
His conscientiousness was his capital ... and he exacted an exorbitant interest for it.