William Kelly

“[H]ell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but a disease.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“...we then find the sovereign individual as the ripest fruit on its tree, like only to itself, having freed itself from the morality of custom, an autonomous, supra-ethical individual (because ‘autonomous’ and ‘ethical’ are mutually exclusive), in short, we find a man with his own, independent, enduring will, whose prerogative it is to promise – and in him a proud consciousness quivering in every muscle of what he has finally achieved and incorporated, an actual awareness of power and freedom, a feeling that man in general has reached completion.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

“The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.”
― G.K. Chesterton